The Space Review
In the current issues of The Space Review, I spotted the following: John Logsdon looks at the recently uncovered tape from the Administration of John F. Kennedy talking about the space program. Tourists (and scientists) to the Moon? Stewart Money looks at the plans for Space Adventures to a Soyuz-based flyby to the Moon. Jeff Foust looks at one often-overlooked aspect of the space program: space art.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Look to the Future
Let me get this straight. We've shut down the shuttle, we've shut down Constellation, we have nothing to replace either being built (let alone a single plan), we have no firm plans for either low Earth orbit or beyond, we have no exploration plan period...and we're moving to a "...bright new future..."?
Is this guy shutting down the agency or what?
Let me get this straight. We've shut down the shuttle, we've shut down Constellation, we have nothing to replace either being built (let alone a single plan), we have no firm plans for either low Earth orbit or beyond, we have no exploration plan period...and we're moving to a "...bright new future..."?
Is this guy shutting down the agency or what?
Still Pretty Dry
Another discovery of water (in one form or the other) on the dry Moon. Still not quite ready to fill the swimming pool, but it is interesting to see how old samples are turning up new informatin. Even more of interest was the sample involved, the famous "orange soil" of Apollo 17.
Another discovery of water (in one form or the other) on the dry Moon. Still not quite ready to fill the swimming pool, but it is interesting to see how old samples are turning up new informatin. Even more of interest was the sample involved, the famous "orange soil" of Apollo 17.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Well Done, Thou Good and Faithful Rover
We've not heard from Spirit in a year. NASA has transitioned to single-rover operations on Mars. Seeing that the original "warranty" was for a three-month mission, Spirit performed well above and beyond its designed performance!
GOOD JOB!
We've not heard from Spirit in a year. NASA has transitioned to single-rover operations on Mars. Seeing that the original "warranty" was for a three-month mission, Spirit performed well above and beyond its designed performance!
GOOD JOB!
Sample Return
NASA is planning to send a robotic vehicle to an asteroid in 2016 to pluck a sample for return to Earth.
NASA is planning to send a robotic vehicle to an asteroid in 2016 to pluck a sample for return to Earth.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Train to Fight, Fight to Win
Tom Kratman; Countdown: The Liberators (Baen Books; February 2011; ISBN 978-1-4391-3402-3; cover by Kurt Miller)
Tom Kratman is no stranger to this blog, I've mentioned him and his books (and even serialized a few chapters from his most recent, The Amazon Legion) here.
Countdown: The Liberators is different from most of his books (other than A State of Disobedience) as it is not "science fiction". Well, it might be science fiction in the sense that, say, Tom Clancy or Howard Coyle, is "science fiction", possibly, maybe, barely in the future. Call it a technothriller. Or maybe milporn.
The son of a chief in Africa is kidnapped and held so that one tribe gains power over another. A group of former (mostly forcibly retired) members of the U.S. military are approached and offered large sums of money in order to rescue the son. A organization is built, trained and causes much mayhem on the sea and land in the course of the rescue. Cue explosions and get ready for the next installment.
Well, I'm being slightly silly. Seeing that I kept restraining myself, knowing that the sequel was not ready, I did enjoy the read. Kratman improves with each book in terms of pacing, character and overall quality of writing. For milporn (is that even a term?), it is pretty good milporn. Kratman introduces several people that I'd like to read about again, including a South African couple and a Israeli tank commander. And we get to see some interesting weapons and vehicles (can this group make good out of a T55?).
As with A Desert Called Peace, Carnifax, The Lotus Eaters and The Amazon Legion, Kratman uses the book to drive home an important point about military life: train to fight, fight to win (actually, we used to say something different, but that would not be, ahem, politically correct). So, Countdown: The Liberators has certain similarities with, say A Desert Called Peace (building a military organization), but that is because nobody (but a few crazed readers, such as myself) would buy a non-fiction work on training. Hopefully, by osmosis, some of the "lessons learned" will sink into those who are in the field via a fun read.
Now for the next one (still forthcoming)! Link to electronic edition found here, also available as a mass market paperback via your usual suspects (might be shelved in "fiction" as well as the genre shelves).
Tom Kratman; Countdown: The Liberators (Baen Books; February 2011; ISBN 978-1-4391-3402-3; cover by Kurt Miller)
Tom Kratman is no stranger to this blog, I've mentioned him and his books (and even serialized a few chapters from his most recent, The Amazon Legion) here.
Countdown: The Liberators is different from most of his books (other than A State of Disobedience) as it is not "science fiction". Well, it might be science fiction in the sense that, say, Tom Clancy or Howard Coyle, is "science fiction", possibly, maybe, barely in the future. Call it a technothriller. Or maybe milporn.
The son of a chief in Africa is kidnapped and held so that one tribe gains power over another. A group of former (mostly forcibly retired) members of the U.S. military are approached and offered large sums of money in order to rescue the son. A organization is built, trained and causes much mayhem on the sea and land in the course of the rescue. Cue explosions and get ready for the next installment.
Well, I'm being slightly silly. Seeing that I kept restraining myself, knowing that the sequel was not ready, I did enjoy the read. Kratman improves with each book in terms of pacing, character and overall quality of writing. For milporn (is that even a term?), it is pretty good milporn. Kratman introduces several people that I'd like to read about again, including a South African couple and a Israeli tank commander. And we get to see some interesting weapons and vehicles (can this group make good out of a T55?).
As with A Desert Called Peace, Carnifax, The Lotus Eaters and The Amazon Legion, Kratman uses the book to drive home an important point about military life: train to fight, fight to win (actually, we used to say something different, but that would not be, ahem, politically correct). So, Countdown: The Liberators has certain similarities with, say A Desert Called Peace (building a military organization), but that is because nobody (but a few crazed readers, such as myself) would buy a non-fiction work on training. Hopefully, by osmosis, some of the "lessons learned" will sink into those who are in the field via a fun read.
Now for the next one (still forthcoming)! Link to electronic edition found here, also available as a mass market paperback via your usual suspects (might be shelved in "fiction" as well as the genre shelves).
Monday, May 16, 2011
Just Shuffling Along (Day 06)
Last Day! Report to Carousel! Last Day! Report to Carousel! By the end even your skin hurts and you smell like a stick of butter, through and through. But you still listen to music.
Genesis; No Reply At All; Me and Sarah Jane; Dodo/Lurker; Man on the Corner; Like It Or Not; Another Record (Abacab)
U2; Zoo Station; Even Better Than the Real Thing; Until the End of the World; So Cruel; The Fly; Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World (Acthung Baby)
Eno Moebius Roedelius; Foreign Affairs; The Belldog; Base & Apex; Tzim N'arki; Lutschlosse (After the Heat)
Steely Dan; Black Cow; Deacon Blues; Peg; I Got the News (Aja)
Paul McCartney; Band on the Run; Jet; Live and Let Die; Junior's Farm; Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (All the Best)
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris; Beachcombing; This Is Us; Red Staggerwing; Rollin' On; Love and Happiness; Right Now; Donkey Town; Belle Starr; Beyond My Wildest Dreams; All the Roadrunning; If This is Goodbye (All the Roadrunning)
Team Unicorn; G33k & G4M3R Girls (All the Way Across the Sky)
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe; Themes (Sounds; Second Attention; Soul Warrior) (Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe)
James Horner & Others; Night Train (James Brown); Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane; Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix); Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum); Honky Tonkin' (Hank Williams) (Apollo 13)
Channel Light Vessel; Testify; Train Travelling North; Slow Afternoon; Ballyboots; A Place We Pray For; Flaming Creatures; Bill's Last Waltz; Fish Owl Moon; Little Luminaries (Automatic)
R.E.M.; Drive; Everybody Hurts; New Orleans Instrumental No. 1; Monty Got a Raw Deal; Star Me Kitten; Man on the Moon; Nightswimming; FInd the River (Automatic for the People)
Paul McCartney & Wings; Band on the Run; Jet (Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Album)
Meat Loaf; Bat Out of Hell; You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night); All Revved Up with No Place to Go; Two Out of Three Ain't Bad; Paradise by the Dashboard Light; For Crying Out Loud (Bat Out of Hell)
Bear Mc Creary; All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan) (from "Crossroads, Part II") (Battlestar Galactica, Season 03)
King Crimson; Waiting Man (Beat)
Brian Eno; Backwater; Energy Fools the Magician; Here He Comes; Julie With...; By This River (Before and After Science)
"Z"; Radio Free Hipster Episode 45; Radio Free Hipster Episode 46 (Radio Free Hipster)
Last Day! Report to Carousel! Last Day! Report to Carousel! By the end even your skin hurts and you smell like a stick of butter, through and through. But you still listen to music.
Genesis; No Reply At All; Me and Sarah Jane; Dodo/Lurker; Man on the Corner; Like It Or Not; Another Record (Abacab)
U2; Zoo Station; Even Better Than the Real Thing; Until the End of the World; So Cruel; The Fly; Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World (Acthung Baby)
Eno Moebius Roedelius; Foreign Affairs; The Belldog; Base & Apex; Tzim N'arki; Lutschlosse (After the Heat)
Steely Dan; Black Cow; Deacon Blues; Peg; I Got the News (Aja)
Paul McCartney; Band on the Run; Jet; Live and Let Die; Junior's Farm; Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (All the Best)
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris; Beachcombing; This Is Us; Red Staggerwing; Rollin' On; Love and Happiness; Right Now; Donkey Town; Belle Starr; Beyond My Wildest Dreams; All the Roadrunning; If This is Goodbye (All the Roadrunning)
Team Unicorn; G33k & G4M3R Girls (All the Way Across the Sky)
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe; Themes (Sounds; Second Attention; Soul Warrior) (Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe)
James Horner & Others; Night Train (James Brown); Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane; Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix); Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum); Honky Tonkin' (Hank Williams) (Apollo 13)
Channel Light Vessel; Testify; Train Travelling North; Slow Afternoon; Ballyboots; A Place We Pray For; Flaming Creatures; Bill's Last Waltz; Fish Owl Moon; Little Luminaries (Automatic)
R.E.M.; Drive; Everybody Hurts; New Orleans Instrumental No. 1; Monty Got a Raw Deal; Star Me Kitten; Man on the Moon; Nightswimming; FInd the River (Automatic for the People)
Paul McCartney & Wings; Band on the Run; Jet (Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Album)
Meat Loaf; Bat Out of Hell; You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night); All Revved Up with No Place to Go; Two Out of Three Ain't Bad; Paradise by the Dashboard Light; For Crying Out Loud (Bat Out of Hell)
Bear Mc Creary; All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan) (from "Crossroads, Part II") (Battlestar Galactica, Season 03)
King Crimson; Waiting Man (Beat)
Brian Eno; Backwater; Energy Fools the Magician; Here He Comes; Julie With...; By This River (Before and After Science)
"Z"; Radio Free Hipster Episode 45; Radio Free Hipster Episode 46 (Radio Free Hipster)
Just Shuffling Along (Day 05)
Saturday! The weather starts to turn...for the worse. An-ti-ci-paaaa-tion! Will we make it? Another shopping trip, our 250th pound or so of onion chopped. Oh our aching backs...Musica, musica! Talking Heads!
Bruce Springsteen; Reno (Devils & Dust)
The Byrds; I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better (Greatest Hits)
Talking Heads; Life During Wartime (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Gator on the Lawn (Playback)
Yes; Magnification (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Annivesary Album)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Ways to be Wicked (Playback)
Dire Straits; One World (Brothers in Arms)
Hans Zimmer; Mogadishu Blues (Blackhawk Down OST)
R.E.M.; Maps and Legends (Fables of the Reconstruction)
Blue Oyster Cult; Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
Michael Kamen & Others; Eight Miles High (The Byrds) (From the Earth to the Moon OST)
The Doors; Strange Days (Strange Days)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Baby, Let's Play House (Playback)
Yoko Kanno; Inner Universe (Ghost in the Shell OST)
R.E.M.; Ages of You (Dead Letter Office)
Eurythmics; Love is a Stranger (Greatest Hits)
Mark Snow & Others; Man of Steel (Frank Black) (Songs in the Key of X)
Channel Light Vessel; Bubbling Blue (Automatic)
Art of Noise; Rapt—In the Evening Air (The Seduction of Claude Debusssy)
Don Davis & Others; Du Hast (Rammstein (The Matrix OST)
The Police; Secret Journey (Ghost in the Machine)
Bruce Springsteen; Born in the U.S.A. (Born in the U.S.A.)
Various; Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (Chris Thomas King) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
R.E.M.; Strange Currencies (MOnster)
King crimson; Neal and Jack and Me (Beat)
Don Davis & Others; Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Mix) (Rob D) (The Matrix OST)
King Crimson; Frame By Frame (Discipline)
The Doors; Moonlight Drive (Version 02) (The Doors)
Mark Knopfler; The Last Laugh (Sailing to Philadelphia)
Steely Dan; Aja (Aja)
The Clash; Rock the Casbah (Combat Rock)
Mark Knopfler; Remembrance Day (Get Lucky)
Mark Knopfler; You Can't Beat the House (Get Lucky)
Roger Eno & Kate St. John; Our Man in Havana (The Familiar)
Mark Knopfler; Cannibals (Golden Heart)
The Doors; Indian Summer (The Doors)
Brux Callison & The Entangled Photons; C'mon Leela (Put Your Knife Away) (Visitations)
Various; What's Going on (Marvin Gaye) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris; I Dug Up a Diamond (All the Roadrunning)
Bruce Springsteen; Terry's Song (Magic)
Roger Eno & Kate St. John; The Familiar (The Familiar)
The Doors; Hyacinth House (L.A. Woman)
Nick Glennie-Smith & Others; Soldier (Steven Curtis Chapman) (We Were Soldiers Once...And Young OST)
Mark Knopfler; The Ragpicker's Dream (The Ragpicker's Dream)
The Pretenders; My City Was Gone (Learning to Crawl)
Bruce Springsteen; Devils & Dust (Devils & Dust)
Genesis; Keep It Dark (Abacab)
XTC; Knuckle Down (English Settlement)
Talking Heads; Stay Hungry (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Hans Zimmer; Tribal War (Blackhawk Down OST)
Hollywood Argyles; ALley Oop
Various; Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (Forrest Gump OST)
Talking Heads; Burning Down the House (Sand in the Vaseline)
The Pretenders; I Go to Sleep (Pretenders II)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Peace in L.A. (Playback)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; A Self-Made Man
R.E.M.; What If We Give It Away (Life's Rich Pageant)
R.E.M.; Fireplace (Document)
Bruce Springsteen; The Angel (Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
The Cars; Moving in Stereo (The Cars)
Genesis; Who Dunnit? (Abacab)
The Traveling Wilburys; The Devil's Been Busy (Traveling Wilburys Volume 3)
Blue Oyster Cult; E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
MC Hawking; Rock Out With Your Hawk Out (E = MC Hawking)
Yoko Kanno; GET9 (TV Size) (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Eurythmics; Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Greatest Hits)
U2; One (Achtung baby)
Steely Dan; Reelin' in the Years (Can't Buy a Thrill)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; You Get Me High (Playback)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Waiting for Tonight (Playback)
Genesis; Duke's Travels (Duke)
R.E.M.; King of Birds (Document)
Brian Eno; Spider & I (Before and After Science)
Talking Heads; Don't Worry About the Government (Sand in the Vaseline)
Various; War (Edwin Starr) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
various; Hey Western Union Man (Jerry Butler) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Talking Heads; Once in a Lifetime (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
The Clash; Hateful (London Calling)
Bruce Springsteen; Cautious Man (Tunnel of Love)
Meat Loaf; Heaven Can Wait (Bat Out of Hell)
The Doors; People Are Strange (False Start & Dialogue) (Strange Days)
MC Hawking; F**k the Creationists (E = MC Hawking)
The Doors; (You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further (L.A. Woman)
Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins; Tears (Neck and Neck)
Yes; If Only You Knew (The Ladder)
The Doors; Been Down So Long (L.A. WOman)
Mark Knopfler; Sands of Nevada (Sailing to Philadelphia)
Warren Zevon; Ain't That Pretty At All (The Best of Warren Zevon)
The Church; A Tale for You (Music Inspired by Jeff VanderMeer's "Shriek: An Afterword")
Dave Matthews Band; Typical Situation (Under the Table and dreaming)
Yes; Don't Kill the Whale (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Various; Nowhere to Run (Martha Reeves & the Vandellas) (Good Morning, Vietnam OST)
Dire Straits; The Man's Too Strong (Brothers in Arms)
Yes; Close to the Edge (Magnification)
Herbie Hancock; TFS; (Future Shock)
The Doors; Break on Through (To the Other Side) (The Doors)
Elliot Goldenthal & Others; ALways Forever Now (Brian Eno & U2) (Heat OST)
Various; What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The Rolling Stones; Time is on My Side (Hot Rocks)
Mark Knopfler; Nobody's Got the Gun (Golden Heart)
Various; Here Comes the Judge (Shorty Long) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
R.E.M.; So Fast, So Numb (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Roger Eno & Jill St. John; Song of Songs (The Familiar)
Dire Straits; Romeo and Juliet (Making Movies)
Yes; Leave It (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Yoko Kanno; Go DA DA (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Various; Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (B.J. Thomas) (Forrest Gump OST)
Bruce Springsteen; Factory (Darkness on the Edge of Town)
Bruce Springsteen; My Hometown (Born in the U.S.A.)
Dire Straits; Water of Love (Dire Straits)
I Zimbra; Talking Heads (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Bruce Springsteen; For You (Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.)
Warren Zevon; Werewolves of London (The Best of Warren Zevon)
Saturday! The weather starts to turn...for the worse. An-ti-ci-paaaa-tion! Will we make it? Another shopping trip, our 250th pound or so of onion chopped. Oh our aching backs...Musica, musica! Talking Heads!
Bruce Springsteen; Reno (Devils & Dust)
The Byrds; I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better (Greatest Hits)
Talking Heads; Life During Wartime (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Gator on the Lawn (Playback)
Yes; Magnification (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Annivesary Album)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Ways to be Wicked (Playback)
Dire Straits; One World (Brothers in Arms)
Hans Zimmer; Mogadishu Blues (Blackhawk Down OST)
R.E.M.; Maps and Legends (Fables of the Reconstruction)
Blue Oyster Cult; Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
Michael Kamen & Others; Eight Miles High (The Byrds) (From the Earth to the Moon OST)
The Doors; Strange Days (Strange Days)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Baby, Let's Play House (Playback)
Yoko Kanno; Inner Universe (Ghost in the Shell OST)
R.E.M.; Ages of You (Dead Letter Office)
Eurythmics; Love is a Stranger (Greatest Hits)
Mark Snow & Others; Man of Steel (Frank Black) (Songs in the Key of X)
Channel Light Vessel; Bubbling Blue (Automatic)
Art of Noise; Rapt—In the Evening Air (The Seduction of Claude Debusssy)
Don Davis & Others; Du Hast (Rammstein (The Matrix OST)
The Police; Secret Journey (Ghost in the Machine)
Bruce Springsteen; Born in the U.S.A. (Born in the U.S.A.)
Various; Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (Chris Thomas King) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
R.E.M.; Strange Currencies (MOnster)
King crimson; Neal and Jack and Me (Beat)
Don Davis & Others; Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Mix) (Rob D) (The Matrix OST)
King Crimson; Frame By Frame (Discipline)
The Doors; Moonlight Drive (Version 02) (The Doors)
Mark Knopfler; The Last Laugh (Sailing to Philadelphia)
Steely Dan; Aja (Aja)
The Clash; Rock the Casbah (Combat Rock)
Mark Knopfler; Remembrance Day (Get Lucky)
Mark Knopfler; You Can't Beat the House (Get Lucky)
Roger Eno & Kate St. John; Our Man in Havana (The Familiar)
Mark Knopfler; Cannibals (Golden Heart)
The Doors; Indian Summer (The Doors)
Brux Callison & The Entangled Photons; C'mon Leela (Put Your Knife Away) (Visitations)
Various; What's Going on (Marvin Gaye) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris; I Dug Up a Diamond (All the Roadrunning)
Bruce Springsteen; Terry's Song (Magic)
Roger Eno & Kate St. John; The Familiar (The Familiar)
The Doors; Hyacinth House (L.A. Woman)
Nick Glennie-Smith & Others; Soldier (Steven Curtis Chapman) (We Were Soldiers Once...And Young OST)
Mark Knopfler; The Ragpicker's Dream (The Ragpicker's Dream)
The Pretenders; My City Was Gone (Learning to Crawl)
Bruce Springsteen; Devils & Dust (Devils & Dust)
Genesis; Keep It Dark (Abacab)
XTC; Knuckle Down (English Settlement)
Talking Heads; Stay Hungry (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Hans Zimmer; Tribal War (Blackhawk Down OST)
Hollywood Argyles; ALley Oop
Various; Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (Forrest Gump OST)
Talking Heads; Burning Down the House (Sand in the Vaseline)
The Pretenders; I Go to Sleep (Pretenders II)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Peace in L.A. (Playback)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; A Self-Made Man
R.E.M.; What If We Give It Away (Life's Rich Pageant)
R.E.M.; Fireplace (Document)
Bruce Springsteen; The Angel (Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
The Cars; Moving in Stereo (The Cars)
Genesis; Who Dunnit? (Abacab)
The Traveling Wilburys; The Devil's Been Busy (Traveling Wilburys Volume 3)
Blue Oyster Cult; E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
MC Hawking; Rock Out With Your Hawk Out (E = MC Hawking)
Yoko Kanno; GET9 (TV Size) (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Eurythmics; Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Greatest Hits)
U2; One (Achtung baby)
Steely Dan; Reelin' in the Years (Can't Buy a Thrill)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; You Get Me High (Playback)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Waiting for Tonight (Playback)
Genesis; Duke's Travels (Duke)
R.E.M.; King of Birds (Document)
Brian Eno; Spider & I (Before and After Science)
Talking Heads; Don't Worry About the Government (Sand in the Vaseline)
Various; War (Edwin Starr) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
various; Hey Western Union Man (Jerry Butler) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Talking Heads; Once in a Lifetime (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
The Clash; Hateful (London Calling)
Bruce Springsteen; Cautious Man (Tunnel of Love)
Meat Loaf; Heaven Can Wait (Bat Out of Hell)
The Doors; People Are Strange (False Start & Dialogue) (Strange Days)
MC Hawking; F**k the Creationists (E = MC Hawking)
The Doors; (You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further (L.A. Woman)
Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins; Tears (Neck and Neck)
Yes; If Only You Knew (The Ladder)
The Doors; Been Down So Long (L.A. WOman)
Mark Knopfler; Sands of Nevada (Sailing to Philadelphia)
Warren Zevon; Ain't That Pretty At All (The Best of Warren Zevon)
The Church; A Tale for You (Music Inspired by Jeff VanderMeer's "Shriek: An Afterword")
Dave Matthews Band; Typical Situation (Under the Table and dreaming)
Yes; Don't Kill the Whale (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Various; Nowhere to Run (Martha Reeves & the Vandellas) (Good Morning, Vietnam OST)
Dire Straits; The Man's Too Strong (Brothers in Arms)
Yes; Close to the Edge (Magnification)
Herbie Hancock; TFS; (Future Shock)
The Doors; Break on Through (To the Other Side) (The Doors)
Elliot Goldenthal & Others; ALways Forever Now (Brian Eno & U2) (Heat OST)
Various; What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The Rolling Stones; Time is on My Side (Hot Rocks)
Mark Knopfler; Nobody's Got the Gun (Golden Heart)
Various; Here Comes the Judge (Shorty Long) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
R.E.M.; So Fast, So Numb (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Roger Eno & Jill St. John; Song of Songs (The Familiar)
Dire Straits; Romeo and Juliet (Making Movies)
Yes; Leave It (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Yoko Kanno; Go DA DA (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Various; Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (B.J. Thomas) (Forrest Gump OST)
Bruce Springsteen; Factory (Darkness on the Edge of Town)
Bruce Springsteen; My Hometown (Born in the U.S.A.)
Dire Straits; Water of Love (Dire Straits)
I Zimbra; Talking Heads (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Bruce Springsteen; For You (Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.)
Warren Zevon; Werewolves of London (The Best of Warren Zevon)
Just Shuffling Along (Day 04)
Friday! While the crew is getting to their peak proficiency, exhaustion is starting to set in. But the bands play on!
Paul McCartney & Wings; Mamunia (Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Album)
Various; It's the Same Old Song (The Four Tops) (The Big Chill OST)
Mark Knopfler; The Ragpicker's Dream (The Ragpicker's Dream)
George Hrab; She Suffers from Superlatives (Interrobang)
Talking Heads; I Zimbra (Sand in the Vaseline)
Talking Heads; Crosseyed and Painless (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Various; Big Rock Candy Mountain (Harry McClintock) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Thomas Dolby; Cloudburst at Shingle Street (The Golden Age of Wireless)
INXS; Wild Life (Kick)
John Anealio; Summer Glau (Sci-Fi Songs)
Steve Winwood; One More Morning (Roll With It)
The Rolling Stones; You Can't Always Get What You Want (Hot Rocks)
The Police; Murder By Numbers (Synchronicity)
Dave Matthews Band; Warehouse (Under the Table and Dreaming)
Various; Bob Cramer, Artillery (Robin Williams) (Good Morning, Vietnam)
Thomas Dolby; The Flat Earth (The Flat Earth)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Down the Line (Playback)
Various; Keep on the Sunny Side (The Whites) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Talking Heads; Drugs (Fear of Music)
Bruce Springsteen; The Ties That Bind (The River)
R.E.M.; Fall on Me (Eponymous)
ELO; Evil Woman (Face the Music)
Mark Knopfler; A Night In Summer Long Ago (Golden Heart)
Steely Dan; Sign in Stranger (The Royal Scam)
XTC; Complicated Game (Drums and Wires)
Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins; Tahitian Skies (Neck and Neck)
Starcraft; Protoss Mix (Starcraft)
Jethro Tull; Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day (War Child)
10,000 Maniacs; Eat for Two (MTV Unplugged)
Kate Bush; Breathing (The Whole Story)
Various; Rebel Rouser (Duane Eddy) (Forrest Gump OST)
Elton John; Roy Rogers (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
Brian Eno; Sky Saw (Another Green World)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Demo) (Playback)
George Hrab; The Coelacanth Sighs (Coelacanth)
R.E.M.; The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Automatic for the People)
Various; A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum) (The Big Chill OST)
The Rolling Stones; Street Fighting Man (Hot Rocks)
Paul McCartney & Wings; Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) (Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Album)
Hawkwind; The Forge of Vulcan (Quark, Strangeness & Charm)
Various; Didn't Leave Anybody But the Baby (Emmylou Harris, ALison Krauss and Gillian Welch) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Bruce Springsteen; Two Faces (Tunnel of Love)
Various; Sympathy (Family Dogg & Steve Rowland) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
R.E.M.; Near Wild Heaven (Out of Time)
R.E.M.; Radio Free Europe (original hib-tone single) (Eponymous)
Talking Heads; The Big Country (More Songs About Buildings and Food)
Yes; Rhythm of Love (Big Generator)
XTC; History of Rock 'n' Roll (Rag & Bone Buffet)
Donald Fagen; Walk Between the Raindrops (The Nightfly)
Yoko Kanno; Run Rabbit Junk (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Brian Eno; Kurt's Rejoinder (Before and After Science)
Tangerine Dream; Alaskan Summer (Lily on the Beach)
Yes; Cinema (90215)
R.E.M.; Gardening at Night (Eponymous)
George Harrison; Got My Mind Set On You (Cloud Nine)
George Hrab; Irk (Vitriol)
Diane Warren; Where My Heart Will Take Me (Faith of the Heart) (Enterprise OST)
Brian Eno; No One Receiving (Before and After Science)
Elton John; Candle in the Wind (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
10,000 Maniacs; I'm Not the Man (MTV Unplugged)
R.E.M.; The Flowers of guatemala (life's Rich Pageant)
Yoko Kanno; Trip City (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Thomas Dolby; Radio Silence (The Golden Age of Wireless)
Yes; Big Generator (Big Generator)
George Hrab; Moses & Morty (Minutiae)
Dire Straits; Wild West End (Minutiae)
Dire Straits; Wild West End (Dire Straits)
John Anealio; Cylon #6 (ccMixer remix) (Sci-Fi Songs)
George Hrab; Goodbye (Coelacanth)
The Clash; Know Your Rights (Combat Rock)
INXS; Guns in the Sky (Kick)
Steely Dan; Josie (Aja)
Don Davis & Various; Watchers (din.ger) (The Matrix OST)
U2; Mysterious Ways (Achtung Baby)
Art of Noise; Continued in Colour (The Seduction of Claude Debussy)
John Anealio; I Should Be Writing (I Should Be Writing)
George Hrab; Age of the Fern ([sic])
Bruce Springsteen; Lost in the Flood (Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.)
XTC; Rook (Nonsuch)
George Hrab; Look at His Pants ([sic])
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Don't Do Me Like That (Mudcrutch Version) (Playback)
Various; Mendocino (Sir Douglas Quintet) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The Clash; London Calling (London Calling)
Yoko Kanno; Be Human (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Dave Matthews Band; Ants Marching (Remember One Thing [Live])
Mark Knopfler; Boom, Like That (One Take Radio Sessions)
Bruce Springsteen; Black Cowboys (Devils & Dust)
XTC; Scarecrow People (Oranges & Lemons)
ELO; Waterfall (Face the Music)
Mark Knopfler; You Can't Beat the House (Get Lucky)
Steely Dan; Barrytown (Pretzel Logic)
Bruce Springsteen; Radio Nowhere (Magic)
Steely Dan; Reelin' in the Years (Can't Buy a Thrill)
10,000 Maniacs; Because the NIght (MTV Unplugged)
R.E.M.; Burning Down (Dead Letter Office)
Various; Ball of Confusion (That's What The WOrld Is Today) (The Temptations) Tour of Duty Compilation)
XTC; Summer's Cauldron (Skylarking)
David Bowie; Can You Hear Me (Young Americans)
The Police; O My God (Synchronicity)
Tom Slatter; Meet Me In Gaslight (Spinning the Compass)
Yes; Going for the One (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
U2; I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Rattle and Hum)
Yes; Love Will Find a Way (Big Generator)
Don Davis & Various; Mindfields (Prodigy) (The Matrix OST)
Don Davis & Various; Bad Blood (Ministry) (The Matrix OST)
Talking Heads; Girlfriend is Better (Live) (Sand in the Vaseline)
Various; I am a Man of Constant Sorrow (John Harford) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Crosby Stills Nash and Young; Ohio (So Far)
R.E.M.; Hair Shirt (Green)
Various; Everybody Be Yoself (Chic Street Man) (Northern Exposure OST)
Yes; I've Seen All Good People (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Peter Gabriel; Fourteen Black Paintings (Us)
Bruce Springsteen; Something in the Night (Darkness on the Edge of Town)
Various; Suicide is Painless (MASH) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The Pretenders; Birds of Paradise (Pretenders II)
Steely Dan; Turn That Heartbeat Over Again (Can't Buy a Thrill)
MC Hawking; What We Need more of Is Science (E = MC Hawking)
Kim Possible; Kim Possible Theme Song (Kim Possible)
David Bowie; Suffragette City (ChangesBowie)
Steely Dan; Any Major Dude Will Tell You (Pretzel Logic)
Bruce Springsteen; She's the One (Born to Run)
Various; I Hear You Knocking (Dave Edmunds) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Friday! While the crew is getting to their peak proficiency, exhaustion is starting to set in. But the bands play on!
Paul McCartney & Wings; Mamunia (Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Album)
Various; It's the Same Old Song (The Four Tops) (The Big Chill OST)
Mark Knopfler; The Ragpicker's Dream (The Ragpicker's Dream)
George Hrab; She Suffers from Superlatives (Interrobang)
Talking Heads; I Zimbra (Sand in the Vaseline)
Talking Heads; Crosseyed and Painless (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Various; Big Rock Candy Mountain (Harry McClintock) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Thomas Dolby; Cloudburst at Shingle Street (The Golden Age of Wireless)
INXS; Wild Life (Kick)
John Anealio; Summer Glau (Sci-Fi Songs)
Steve Winwood; One More Morning (Roll With It)
The Rolling Stones; You Can't Always Get What You Want (Hot Rocks)
The Police; Murder By Numbers (Synchronicity)
Dave Matthews Band; Warehouse (Under the Table and Dreaming)
Various; Bob Cramer, Artillery (Robin Williams) (Good Morning, Vietnam)
Thomas Dolby; The Flat Earth (The Flat Earth)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Down the Line (Playback)
Various; Keep on the Sunny Side (The Whites) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Talking Heads; Drugs (Fear of Music)
Bruce Springsteen; The Ties That Bind (The River)
R.E.M.; Fall on Me (Eponymous)
ELO; Evil Woman (Face the Music)
Mark Knopfler; A Night In Summer Long Ago (Golden Heart)
Steely Dan; Sign in Stranger (The Royal Scam)
XTC; Complicated Game (Drums and Wires)
Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins; Tahitian Skies (Neck and Neck)
Starcraft; Protoss Mix (Starcraft)
Jethro Tull; Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day (War Child)
10,000 Maniacs; Eat for Two (MTV Unplugged)
Kate Bush; Breathing (The Whole Story)
Various; Rebel Rouser (Duane Eddy) (Forrest Gump OST)
Elton John; Roy Rogers (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
Brian Eno; Sky Saw (Another Green World)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Demo) (Playback)
George Hrab; The Coelacanth Sighs (Coelacanth)
R.E.M.; The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Automatic for the People)
Various; A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum) (The Big Chill OST)
The Rolling Stones; Street Fighting Man (Hot Rocks)
Paul McCartney & Wings; Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) (Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Album)
Hawkwind; The Forge of Vulcan (Quark, Strangeness & Charm)
Various; Didn't Leave Anybody But the Baby (Emmylou Harris, ALison Krauss and Gillian Welch) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Bruce Springsteen; Two Faces (Tunnel of Love)
Various; Sympathy (Family Dogg & Steve Rowland) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
R.E.M.; Near Wild Heaven (Out of Time)
R.E.M.; Radio Free Europe (original hib-tone single) (Eponymous)
Talking Heads; The Big Country (More Songs About Buildings and Food)
Yes; Rhythm of Love (Big Generator)
XTC; History of Rock 'n' Roll (Rag & Bone Buffet)
Donald Fagen; Walk Between the Raindrops (The Nightfly)
Yoko Kanno; Run Rabbit Junk (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Brian Eno; Kurt's Rejoinder (Before and After Science)
Tangerine Dream; Alaskan Summer (Lily on the Beach)
Yes; Cinema (90215)
R.E.M.; Gardening at Night (Eponymous)
George Harrison; Got My Mind Set On You (Cloud Nine)
George Hrab; Irk (Vitriol)
Diane Warren; Where My Heart Will Take Me (Faith of the Heart) (Enterprise OST)
Brian Eno; No One Receiving (Before and After Science)
Elton John; Candle in the Wind (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
10,000 Maniacs; I'm Not the Man (MTV Unplugged)
R.E.M.; The Flowers of guatemala (life's Rich Pageant)
Yoko Kanno; Trip City (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Thomas Dolby; Radio Silence (The Golden Age of Wireless)
Yes; Big Generator (Big Generator)
George Hrab; Moses & Morty (Minutiae)
Dire Straits; Wild West End (Minutiae)
Dire Straits; Wild West End (Dire Straits)
John Anealio; Cylon #6 (ccMixer remix) (Sci-Fi Songs)
George Hrab; Goodbye (Coelacanth)
The Clash; Know Your Rights (Combat Rock)
INXS; Guns in the Sky (Kick)
Steely Dan; Josie (Aja)
Don Davis & Various; Watchers (din.ger) (The Matrix OST)
U2; Mysterious Ways (Achtung Baby)
Art of Noise; Continued in Colour (The Seduction of Claude Debussy)
John Anealio; I Should Be Writing (I Should Be Writing)
George Hrab; Age of the Fern ([sic])
Bruce Springsteen; Lost in the Flood (Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.)
XTC; Rook (Nonsuch)
George Hrab; Look at His Pants ([sic])
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Don't Do Me Like That (Mudcrutch Version) (Playback)
Various; Mendocino (Sir Douglas Quintet) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The Clash; London Calling (London Calling)
Yoko Kanno; Be Human (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Dave Matthews Band; Ants Marching (Remember One Thing [Live])
Mark Knopfler; Boom, Like That (One Take Radio Sessions)
Bruce Springsteen; Black Cowboys (Devils & Dust)
XTC; Scarecrow People (Oranges & Lemons)
ELO; Waterfall (Face the Music)
Mark Knopfler; You Can't Beat the House (Get Lucky)
Steely Dan; Barrytown (Pretzel Logic)
Bruce Springsteen; Radio Nowhere (Magic)
Steely Dan; Reelin' in the Years (Can't Buy a Thrill)
10,000 Maniacs; Because the NIght (MTV Unplugged)
R.E.M.; Burning Down (Dead Letter Office)
Various; Ball of Confusion (That's What The WOrld Is Today) (The Temptations) Tour of Duty Compilation)
XTC; Summer's Cauldron (Skylarking)
David Bowie; Can You Hear Me (Young Americans)
The Police; O My God (Synchronicity)
Tom Slatter; Meet Me In Gaslight (Spinning the Compass)
Yes; Going for the One (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
U2; I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Rattle and Hum)
Yes; Love Will Find a Way (Big Generator)
Don Davis & Various; Mindfields (Prodigy) (The Matrix OST)
Don Davis & Various; Bad Blood (Ministry) (The Matrix OST)
Talking Heads; Girlfriend is Better (Live) (Sand in the Vaseline)
Various; I am a Man of Constant Sorrow (John Harford) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Crosby Stills Nash and Young; Ohio (So Far)
R.E.M.; Hair Shirt (Green)
Various; Everybody Be Yoself (Chic Street Man) (Northern Exposure OST)
Yes; I've Seen All Good People (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Peter Gabriel; Fourteen Black Paintings (Us)
Bruce Springsteen; Something in the Night (Darkness on the Edge of Town)
Various; Suicide is Painless (MASH) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The Pretenders; Birds of Paradise (Pretenders II)
Steely Dan; Turn That Heartbeat Over Again (Can't Buy a Thrill)
MC Hawking; What We Need more of Is Science (E = MC Hawking)
Kim Possible; Kim Possible Theme Song (Kim Possible)
David Bowie; Suffragette City (ChangesBowie)
Steely Dan; Any Major Dude Will Tell You (Pretzel Logic)
Bruce Springsteen; She's the One (Born to Run)
Various; I Hear You Knocking (Dave Edmunds) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Just Shuffling Along (Day 03)
Thursday! Bracelet Day! Madness ensues, followed by a after event Food Committee meeting. Can you say...too tired to think? But what did we listen to, you ask?
Talking Heads; Artists only (More Songs About Buildings and Food)
The Beatles; A Day in the Life (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Talking Heads; Sax and Violins (Sand in the Vaseline)
John Anealio; The Return of Titus Quinn (Sci-Fi Songs)
R.E.M.; Stand (Green)
Various; From the Underworld (The Nerd) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
R.E.M.; Talk About the Passion (Eponymous)
U2; If God Will Send His Angels (Pop)
David Bowie; Diamond Dogs (Diamond Dogs)
Talking Heads; I Zimbra (Fear of Music)
Bruce Springsteen; Fade Away (the River)
ELO; Strange Music (Face the Music)
John Anealio; George R. R. Martin Is Not Your Bitch (Sci-Fi Songs)
Jethro Tull; Bungle in the Jungle (War Child)
Channel Light Vessel; Thunderous Accordians (Automatic)
George Hrab; Done Talking (Interrobang)
The Pretenders; Jealous Dogs (Pretenders II)
George Harrison; When We Was Fab (Cloud Nine)
Kate Bush; Heads We're Dancing (The Sensual World)
James Horner & Various; Groovin' (The Young Rascals) (Apollo 13)
R.E.M.; The Wrong Child (Green)
Various; Jimmy Mack (Martha & the Vandellas) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers; Gator on the Lawn (Playback)
Yes; It Can Happen (Single Edit) (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
The Rolling Stones; Get Off My Cloud (Hot Rocks)
The Pretenders; Precious (Pretenders)
Talking Heads; Stay Hungry (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
R.E.M.; I Took Your Name (Monster)
David Bowie; Bang Bang (Never Let Me Down)
Various; (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet (The Blue Maggos) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Yes; Rhythm of Love (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
R.E.M.; There She Goes Again (Dead Letter Office)
10,000 Maniacs; Candy Everybody Wants (Our Time in Eden)
The Traveling Wilburys; Not Alone Any More (Traveling Wilburys Volume 1)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Turning Point (Playback)
Van MOrrison; Wavelength (Still On Top)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Change of Heart (Long After Dark)
Talking Heads; Houses in Motion (Remain in Light)
Van Morrison; Wild Night (Stil On Top)
George Hrab; Convenient (Coelacanth)
U2; Ultraviolet (Light My Way) (Achtung Baby)
Yoko Kanno; We're the Great (Ghost in the Shell OST)
R.E.M.; Zither (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Tangerine Dream; Sun Gate (Optical Race)
Dave Matthews Band; Satellite (Under the Table and Dreaming)
Various; I am Weary (Let Me Rest) (The Cox Family) (O Brother, Where Art Thou)
10,000 Maniacs; Jezebel (Our Time in Eden)
Mark Snow and Various; Frenzy (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) (Songs in the Key of X)
XTC; Humble Daisy (Nonsuch)
U2; All Along the Watchtower (Rattle and Hum)
David Bowie; Criminal World (Let's Dance)
David Bowie; When the Wind Blows (from the film "Where the Wind Blows) (Never Let Me Down)
Mark Snow and Various; Unexplained (Meat Puppets) (Songs in the Key of X)
Yoko Kanno; Cream; Ghost in the Shell OST)
Dire Straits; Setting Me Up (Dire Straits)
XTC; Millions (Drums and Wires)
INXS; Tiny Daggers (Kick)
XTC; Jason and the Argonauts (English Settlement)
Tracy Chapman; Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
The B-52's; 52 Girls (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
U2; The Unforgettable Fire (The Unforgettable Fire)
Jethro Tull; Ladies (War Child)
Various; Everybody's Talkin' (Harry Nilsson) (Forrest Gump OST)
Led Zeppelin; Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin II)
XTC; Dear God (Skylarking)
Mark Knopfler; The Trawlerman's Song (One Take Radio Sessions)
George Hrab; Shoe (Vitriol)
Bruce Sringsteen; Sherry Darling (The River)
Various; I Got You (I Feel Good) (James Brown) (Good Morning, Vietnam!)
R.E.M.; Star 69 (Monster)
The Police; Every Breath You Take (Synchronicity)
Roger Eno & Kate St. John; Days of Delay (The Familiar)
R.E.M.; So. Central Rain (Eponymous)
The Cars; Good Times Roll (The Cars)
Mark Knopfler; Border Reiver (Get Lucky)
R.E.M.; Let Me In (Monster)
Various; Peace Train (Cat Stevens) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Mark Knopfler; What It Is (Sailing to Philadelphia)
Various; We've Gotta Get Out of This Place (The Animals) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
George Hrab; Treadmill Anxiety (Minutiae)
Talking Heads; Swamp (Sand in the Vaseline)
R.E.M.; Ignoreland (Automatic for the People)
R.E.M.; Low Desert (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Various; The Warmth of the Sun (The Beach Boys) (Good Morning, Vietnam!)
Talking Heads; Seen and Not Seen (Remain in Light)
Talking Heads; Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
The Pretenders; Up the Neck (Pretenders)
Art of Noise; Something Always Happens (The Best of Art of Noise)
XTC; That Wave (nonsuch)
XTC; Scissor Man (Drums and Wires)
R.E.M.; Driver 8 (Eponymous)
The Byrds; The Bells of Rhymney (Greatest Hits)
Various; Po Lazarus (James Carter and the Prisoners) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
U2; Discotheque (Pop)
Talking Heads; Warning Sign (Sand in the Vaseline)
Bruce springsteen; All the Way Home (Devils & Dust)
Various; It's Too Late (Carole King) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
David Bowie; '87 and Out (Never Let Me Down)
Starcraft; Brood War Bash (Starcraft)
Yoko Kanno; Spider Bites (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Dave Matthews Band; What Would You Say (Under the Table and Dreaming)
Yoko Kanno; Stamina Rose (Ghost in the Shell OST)
The Church; The Grey Caps (Music Inspired by Jeff VanderMeer's "Shriek: An Afterword")
XTC; Miniature Sun (Oranges & Lemons)
Various; Eight Miles High (The Byrds) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
XTC; Melt the Guns (English Settlement)
Various; The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore (Walker Brothers) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Bruce Springsteen; You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) (The River)
Steely Dan; Black Friday (Katy Lied)
David Bowie; Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (Let's Dance)
Various; I Like to Move It (Madagascar Two: Escape to Africa)
Yoko Kanno; Rise (TV Size) (Ghost in the Shell OST)
The Police; Too Much Information (Ghost in the Machine)
Brian Eno; Riverside (The Shutov Assembly)
R.E.M.; Kohoutek (Fables of the Reconstruction)
Hans Zimmer; Still (Blackhawk Down)
U2; If You Wear That Velvet Dress (Pop)
The Police; One World (Not Three) (Ghost in the Machine)
Paul McCartney; Listen To What The Man Said (All the Best)
The Byrds; Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (Greatest Hits)
Mark Knopfler; I'm the Fool (Golden Heart)
Tracy Chapman; Behind the Wall (Tracy Chapman)
XTC; The Loving (Oranges & Lemons)
Yoko Kanno; Beauty Is Within Us (Ghost in the Shell OST)
John ANealio; The Transformers Theme (Sci-Fi Songs)
Yes; Holy Land (Big Generator)
Various; War (Edwin Starr) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
R.E.M.; What's the Frequency, Kenneth? (Monster)
XTC; Scissor Man (Rag & Bone Buffet)
R.E.M.; Low (Out of Time)
Bruce Springsteen; All I'm Thinkin' About (Devils & Dust)
Kate Bush; Rubberband Girl (The Red Shoes)
John Anealio; Hospital Girl (Sci-Fi Songs)
Various; Everlasting Love (The Love Affair) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Talking Heads; Once in a Lifetime (Sand in the Vaseline)
Talking Heads; LIfe During Wartime (Live) (Sand in the Vaseline)
Eurythmics; Here Comes the Rain Again (Greatest Hits)
R.E.M.; Begin the Begin (Life's Rich Pageant)
Starcraft; Atomic Dance Explosion Starcraft (Starcraft)
Warren Zevon; Poor Poor Pitiful Me (The Best of Warren Zevon)
The B-52's; Roam (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
Hawkwind; Days of the Underground (Quark, Strangeness & Charm)
Various; In the Jailhouse Now (The Soggy Bottom Boys) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Don Davis & Various; Leave You Far Behind (Lunatic Calm) (The Matrix OST)
Yoko Kanno; Some Other Time (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Paul McCartney; With a Little Luck (All the Best)
Various; Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) (Forrest Gump OST)
XTC; Pulsing Pulsing (Rag & Bone Buffet)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; A Wasted Life (Long After Dark)
INXS; Mystify (Kick)
U2; The Star Spangled Banner (Rattle and Hum)
Mark Knopfler; Before Gas and TV (Get Lucky)
Yes; Heart of the Sunrise (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Blue Oyster Cult; Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
Blue Oyster Cult; 7 Screaming Diz-Busters (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
Thursday! Bracelet Day! Madness ensues, followed by a after event Food Committee meeting. Can you say...too tired to think? But what did we listen to, you ask?
Talking Heads; Artists only (More Songs About Buildings and Food)
The Beatles; A Day in the Life (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Talking Heads; Sax and Violins (Sand in the Vaseline)
John Anealio; The Return of Titus Quinn (Sci-Fi Songs)
R.E.M.; Stand (Green)
Various; From the Underworld (The Nerd) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
R.E.M.; Talk About the Passion (Eponymous)
U2; If God Will Send His Angels (Pop)
David Bowie; Diamond Dogs (Diamond Dogs)
Talking Heads; I Zimbra (Fear of Music)
Bruce Springsteen; Fade Away (the River)
ELO; Strange Music (Face the Music)
John Anealio; George R. R. Martin Is Not Your Bitch (Sci-Fi Songs)
Jethro Tull; Bungle in the Jungle (War Child)
Channel Light Vessel; Thunderous Accordians (Automatic)
George Hrab; Done Talking (Interrobang)
The Pretenders; Jealous Dogs (Pretenders II)
George Harrison; When We Was Fab (Cloud Nine)
Kate Bush; Heads We're Dancing (The Sensual World)
James Horner & Various; Groovin' (The Young Rascals) (Apollo 13)
R.E.M.; The Wrong Child (Green)
Various; Jimmy Mack (Martha & the Vandellas) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers; Gator on the Lawn (Playback)
Yes; It Can Happen (Single Edit) (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
The Rolling Stones; Get Off My Cloud (Hot Rocks)
The Pretenders; Precious (Pretenders)
Talking Heads; Stay Hungry (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
R.E.M.; I Took Your Name (Monster)
David Bowie; Bang Bang (Never Let Me Down)
Various; (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet (The Blue Maggos) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Yes; Rhythm of Love (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
R.E.M.; There She Goes Again (Dead Letter Office)
10,000 Maniacs; Candy Everybody Wants (Our Time in Eden)
The Traveling Wilburys; Not Alone Any More (Traveling Wilburys Volume 1)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Turning Point (Playback)
Van MOrrison; Wavelength (Still On Top)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Change of Heart (Long After Dark)
Talking Heads; Houses in Motion (Remain in Light)
Van Morrison; Wild Night (Stil On Top)
George Hrab; Convenient (Coelacanth)
U2; Ultraviolet (Light My Way) (Achtung Baby)
Yoko Kanno; We're the Great (Ghost in the Shell OST)
R.E.M.; Zither (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Tangerine Dream; Sun Gate (Optical Race)
Dave Matthews Band; Satellite (Under the Table and Dreaming)
Various; I am Weary (Let Me Rest) (The Cox Family) (O Brother, Where Art Thou)
10,000 Maniacs; Jezebel (Our Time in Eden)
Mark Snow and Various; Frenzy (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) (Songs in the Key of X)
XTC; Humble Daisy (Nonsuch)
U2; All Along the Watchtower (Rattle and Hum)
David Bowie; Criminal World (Let's Dance)
David Bowie; When the Wind Blows (from the film "Where the Wind Blows) (Never Let Me Down)
Mark Snow and Various; Unexplained (Meat Puppets) (Songs in the Key of X)
Yoko Kanno; Cream; Ghost in the Shell OST)
Dire Straits; Setting Me Up (Dire Straits)
XTC; Millions (Drums and Wires)
INXS; Tiny Daggers (Kick)
XTC; Jason and the Argonauts (English Settlement)
Tracy Chapman; Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
The B-52's; 52 Girls (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
U2; The Unforgettable Fire (The Unforgettable Fire)
Jethro Tull; Ladies (War Child)
Various; Everybody's Talkin' (Harry Nilsson) (Forrest Gump OST)
Led Zeppelin; Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin II)
XTC; Dear God (Skylarking)
Mark Knopfler; The Trawlerman's Song (One Take Radio Sessions)
George Hrab; Shoe (Vitriol)
Bruce Sringsteen; Sherry Darling (The River)
Various; I Got You (I Feel Good) (James Brown) (Good Morning, Vietnam!)
R.E.M.; Star 69 (Monster)
The Police; Every Breath You Take (Synchronicity)
Roger Eno & Kate St. John; Days of Delay (The Familiar)
R.E.M.; So. Central Rain (Eponymous)
The Cars; Good Times Roll (The Cars)
Mark Knopfler; Border Reiver (Get Lucky)
R.E.M.; Let Me In (Monster)
Various; Peace Train (Cat Stevens) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Mark Knopfler; What It Is (Sailing to Philadelphia)
Various; We've Gotta Get Out of This Place (The Animals) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
George Hrab; Treadmill Anxiety (Minutiae)
Talking Heads; Swamp (Sand in the Vaseline)
R.E.M.; Ignoreland (Automatic for the People)
R.E.M.; Low Desert (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Various; The Warmth of the Sun (The Beach Boys) (Good Morning, Vietnam!)
Talking Heads; Seen and Not Seen (Remain in Light)
Talking Heads; Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
The Pretenders; Up the Neck (Pretenders)
Art of Noise; Something Always Happens (The Best of Art of Noise)
XTC; That Wave (nonsuch)
XTC; Scissor Man (Drums and Wires)
R.E.M.; Driver 8 (Eponymous)
The Byrds; The Bells of Rhymney (Greatest Hits)
Various; Po Lazarus (James Carter and the Prisoners) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
U2; Discotheque (Pop)
Talking Heads; Warning Sign (Sand in the Vaseline)
Bruce springsteen; All the Way Home (Devils & Dust)
Various; It's Too Late (Carole King) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
David Bowie; '87 and Out (Never Let Me Down)
Starcraft; Brood War Bash (Starcraft)
Yoko Kanno; Spider Bites (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Dave Matthews Band; What Would You Say (Under the Table and Dreaming)
Yoko Kanno; Stamina Rose (Ghost in the Shell OST)
The Church; The Grey Caps (Music Inspired by Jeff VanderMeer's "Shriek: An Afterword")
XTC; Miniature Sun (Oranges & Lemons)
Various; Eight Miles High (The Byrds) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
XTC; Melt the Guns (English Settlement)
Various; The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore (Walker Brothers) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Bruce Springsteen; You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) (The River)
Steely Dan; Black Friday (Katy Lied)
David Bowie; Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (Let's Dance)
Various; I Like to Move It (Madagascar Two: Escape to Africa)
Yoko Kanno; Rise (TV Size) (Ghost in the Shell OST)
The Police; Too Much Information (Ghost in the Machine)
Brian Eno; Riverside (The Shutov Assembly)
R.E.M.; Kohoutek (Fables of the Reconstruction)
Hans Zimmer; Still (Blackhawk Down)
U2; If You Wear That Velvet Dress (Pop)
The Police; One World (Not Three) (Ghost in the Machine)
Paul McCartney; Listen To What The Man Said (All the Best)
The Byrds; Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (Greatest Hits)
Mark Knopfler; I'm the Fool (Golden Heart)
Tracy Chapman; Behind the Wall (Tracy Chapman)
XTC; The Loving (Oranges & Lemons)
Yoko Kanno; Beauty Is Within Us (Ghost in the Shell OST)
John ANealio; The Transformers Theme (Sci-Fi Songs)
Yes; Holy Land (Big Generator)
Various; War (Edwin Starr) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
R.E.M.; What's the Frequency, Kenneth? (Monster)
XTC; Scissor Man (Rag & Bone Buffet)
R.E.M.; Low (Out of Time)
Bruce Springsteen; All I'm Thinkin' About (Devils & Dust)
Kate Bush; Rubberband Girl (The Red Shoes)
John Anealio; Hospital Girl (Sci-Fi Songs)
Various; Everlasting Love (The Love Affair) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Talking Heads; Once in a Lifetime (Sand in the Vaseline)
Talking Heads; LIfe During Wartime (Live) (Sand in the Vaseline)
Eurythmics; Here Comes the Rain Again (Greatest Hits)
R.E.M.; Begin the Begin (Life's Rich Pageant)
Starcraft; Atomic Dance Explosion Starcraft (Starcraft)
Warren Zevon; Poor Poor Pitiful Me (The Best of Warren Zevon)
The B-52's; Roam (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
Hawkwind; Days of the Underground (Quark, Strangeness & Charm)
Various; In the Jailhouse Now (The Soggy Bottom Boys) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Don Davis & Various; Leave You Far Behind (Lunatic Calm) (The Matrix OST)
Yoko Kanno; Some Other Time (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Paul McCartney; With a Little Luck (All the Best)
Various; Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) (Forrest Gump OST)
XTC; Pulsing Pulsing (Rag & Bone Buffet)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; A Wasted Life (Long After Dark)
INXS; Mystify (Kick)
U2; The Star Spangled Banner (Rattle and Hum)
Mark Knopfler; Before Gas and TV (Get Lucky)
Yes; Heart of the Sunrise (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Blue Oyster Cult; Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
Blue Oyster Cult; 7 Screaming Diz-Busters (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
The Space Review
In the current issue of The Space Review, a few items of interest: Will the Falcon Heavy be a good science launch vehicle as well as cargo launch vehicle? Jeff Foust looks at the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. $1 billion! And, Jeff Foust returns with a review of a book about the long road to private spaceflight.
In the current issue of The Space Review, a few items of interest: Will the Falcon Heavy be a good science launch vehicle as well as cargo launch vehicle? Jeff Foust looks at the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. $1 billion! And, Jeff Foust returns with a review of a book about the long road to private spaceflight.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Old Data...New Results
By looking at data collected during the Galileo mission to Jupiter, scientists have determined that Jupiter's moon Io probably has a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma!
By looking at data collected during the Galileo mission to Jupiter, scientists have determined that Jupiter's moon Io probably has a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma!
Distant Lab
NGC 4214, ablaze with young stars and embedded with gas clouds. A star-formation laboratory.
Associated: Superflares in the Crab Nebula!
NGC 4214, ablaze with young stars and embedded with gas clouds. A star-formation laboratory.
Associated: Superflares in the Crab Nebula!
Just Shuffling Along: Day 02
The latest playlist. This actually is probably shorter than it should be, the iPod "rebooted" at one point, so some songs may have played twice as it shuffled again.
The Beatles: Good Day Suhine (Revolver)
Paul McCartney & Wings: Helen Wheels (Band on the Run 25th Anniversary Edition)
Various: Child in Time (Deep Purple) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
XTC: The Ballad of Peter Pumkinhead (Nonsuch)
Various: Family Affair (Sly & The Family Stone) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (The Best of Warren Zevon)
U2: One (Achtung Baby)
King Crimson: Matte Kudasai (Discipline)
Talking Heads: Don't Worry About the Government (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Talking Heads: Stay Up Late (Sand in the Vaseline)
R.E.M.: Rotary Ten (Dead Letter Office)
The Beatles: Girl (Rubber Soul)
R.E.M.: (Don't Go Back to) Rockville (Eponymous)
Hawkwind: Fable of a Failed Race (Quark, Strangeness & Charm)
The Beatles: When I'm Sixty-Four (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
King Crimson: The Sheltering Sky (Discipline)
Various: Lonesome Valley (Fairfield Four) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Talking Heads: Who Is It? (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
The B-52's: Mesopotamia (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
Yes: Roundabout (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Casa Dega (Playback)
Joan Armatrading: Warm Love (Love and Affection)
Various: I am a Man of Constant Sorrow (The Soggy Bottom Boys) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Jethro Tull: The Third Hoorah (War Child)
Led Zeppelin: The Lemon Song (Led Zeppelin II)
The Beatles: You Won't See Me (Rubber Soul)
Steey Dan: Don't Take Me Alive (The Royal Scam)
Queen: Save Me (Greatest Hits)
Mark Snow: X-Files Theme (P.M. Dawn remix) (Songs in the Key of X)
Marc Seales: Highway Blues (Speakin' Out)
Various: Theme from Northern Exposure (David Schwartz) (Northern Exposure OST)
Jethro Tull: War Child (War Child)
R.E.M.: Turn You Inside Out (Green)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Rebels (Playback)
Sting: If I Ever Lose Faith In You (Ten summoner's Tales)
George Harrison: That's What It Takes (Cloud Nine)
XTC: That's Really Super, Supergrl (Skylarking)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Love Is A Long Road (Playback)
The Beatles: I'll Be Back (A Hard Day's Night)
R.E.M.: Try Not to Breathe (Automatic for the People)
Various; I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) (The Four Tops) (Forrest Gump OST)
Yoko Kanno: I Can't Be Cool (Ghost in the Shell OST)
The Church: Even the Flies Have Eyes (Music Inspired by Jeff Vandermeer's "Shriek: An Afterword")
Talking Heads: The Big Country (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
David Bowie: Modern Love (ChangesBowie)
Van Morrison: Days Like This (Still On Top)
King Crimson: Elephant Talk (Discipline)
Peter Gabriel: Come Talk to Me (Us)
Van Morrison: Coney Island (Still On Top)
Roger Eno & Kate St. John: In A Lonely World (The Familiar)
Mark Knopfler: Speedway At Nazareth (Sailing to Philadlephia)
David Bowie: Who DCan I Be Now? (previously unreleased) (Young Americans)
Various: White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) (Platoon OST)
MC Loki: Who be the Man? (Visitations)
XTC: 1,000 Umbrellas (Skylarking)
The Church: My Love, Last Night (Music Inspired by Jeff Vandermeer's "Shriek: An Afterword")
Various: Respect (Aretha Franklin) (Platoon OST)
Hans Zimmer: Tribal War (Blackhawk Down)
Various: She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Joe Cocker, The Beatles) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Various: (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman (Aretha Franklin) (The Big Chill OST)
Various: Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane) (Forrest Gump OST)
U2: Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car (Zooropa)
U2: Angel of Harlem (Rattle and Hum)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Something Big (Playback)
dj BC: Sweet and Clear (Jay-Z vs. Brian Eno) (Another Jay on Earth
John Anealio: Sarene (Sci-Fi Songs)
U2: Please (Pop)
The ROlling Stones: Honkey Tonk Women (Hot Rocks)
Kate Bush: This Woman's Work (The Sensual World)
Van Morrison: Dweller on the Threshold (Still on Top)
The Traveling Wilburys: Cool Dry Place (Traveling Wilburys Volume 3)
Joan Armatrading: All the Way from America (Love and Affection)
R.E.M.: Disturbance at the Heron House (Document)
George Hrab: We're Looking for Something More ethnic (Interrobang)
John Anealio: Jax (Leodora remix) (ft. John Anealio & Audiotechnica) (Sci-Fi Songs)
Various: I Like to Move It (Sacha Baron Cohen) (Madagascar)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Mary Jane's Last Dance (Playback)
David Bowie: Fame (Young Americans)
R.E.M.: Bang and Blame (Monster)
10,000 Maniacs: Noah's Dove (Our Time in Eden)
XTC: It's Nearly Africa (English Settlement)
Various: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (B.J. Thomas) (Forrest Gump OST)
The Beatles: Nowhere Man (Rubber Soul)
U2: Love Is Blindness (Achtung Baby)
The Pretenders: Private Life (Pretenders)
Dire Straits: Down to the Waterline (Dire Straits)
The Rolling Stones: Heart of Stone (Hot Rocks)
Van Morrison: Back On Top (Still On Top)
U2: The Playboy Mansion (Pop)
Various: Here's the News... (Robin Williams) (Good Morning, Vietnam OST)
Various: Spybreak (Short One) (Properllerheads) (The Matrix OST)
David Bowie: Glass Spider (Never Let Me Down)
Talking Heads: Don't Worry About the Government (Sand in the Vaseline)
Various: Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Remix) (Rob ZOmbie) (The Matrix OST)
David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll With Me (Diamond Dogs)
Dire Straits: Southbound Again (Dire Straits)
The Beatles: Love You To (Revolver)
The Church: DUncan and Mary (Music Inspired by Jeff Vandermeer's "Shriek: An Afterword")
Various: Naked Mole Rap (Kim Possible)
Joan Armatrading: I'm Lucky (Love and Affection)
Various: What The World Needs Now Is Love (Jackie De Shannon) (Forrest Gump OST)
Mark Knopfler: Sailing to Philadelphia (Sailing to Philadelphia)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: A Thing About You (Playback)
Various: Good Lovin' (The Rascals) (The Big Chill OST)
Various: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Tangerine Dream: Valley of the Kings (Lily on the Beach)
Various: Smiling Faces (The Undisputed Truth) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Various: Thanks Bro (Filter) (Songs in the Key of X)
R.E.M.: Sweetness Follows (Automatic for the People)
George Hrab: Disappointed (Interrobang)
Talking Heads: (Nothing But) Flowers (Naked)
The Pretenders: The English Dogs (Pretenders II)
Joan Armatrading: Down to Zero (Love and Affection)
Talking Heads: Air (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
The latest playlist. This actually is probably shorter than it should be, the iPod "rebooted" at one point, so some songs may have played twice as it shuffled again.
The Beatles: Good Day Suhine (Revolver)
Paul McCartney & Wings: Helen Wheels (Band on the Run 25th Anniversary Edition)
Various: Child in Time (Deep Purple) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
XTC: The Ballad of Peter Pumkinhead (Nonsuch)
Various: Family Affair (Sly & The Family Stone) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (The Best of Warren Zevon)
U2: One (Achtung Baby)
King Crimson: Matte Kudasai (Discipline)
Talking Heads: Don't Worry About the Government (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Talking Heads: Stay Up Late (Sand in the Vaseline)
R.E.M.: Rotary Ten (Dead Letter Office)
The Beatles: Girl (Rubber Soul)
R.E.M.: (Don't Go Back to) Rockville (Eponymous)
Hawkwind: Fable of a Failed Race (Quark, Strangeness & Charm)
The Beatles: When I'm Sixty-Four (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
King Crimson: The Sheltering Sky (Discipline)
Various: Lonesome Valley (Fairfield Four) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Talking Heads: Who Is It? (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
The B-52's: Mesopotamia (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
Yes: Roundabout (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Casa Dega (Playback)
Joan Armatrading: Warm Love (Love and Affection)
Various: I am a Man of Constant Sorrow (The Soggy Bottom Boys) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Jethro Tull: The Third Hoorah (War Child)
Led Zeppelin: The Lemon Song (Led Zeppelin II)
The Beatles: You Won't See Me (Rubber Soul)
Steey Dan: Don't Take Me Alive (The Royal Scam)
Queen: Save Me (Greatest Hits)
Mark Snow: X-Files Theme (P.M. Dawn remix) (Songs in the Key of X)
Marc Seales: Highway Blues (Speakin' Out)
Various: Theme from Northern Exposure (David Schwartz) (Northern Exposure OST)
Jethro Tull: War Child (War Child)
R.E.M.: Turn You Inside Out (Green)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Rebels (Playback)
Sting: If I Ever Lose Faith In You (Ten summoner's Tales)
George Harrison: That's What It Takes (Cloud Nine)
XTC: That's Really Super, Supergrl (Skylarking)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Love Is A Long Road (Playback)
The Beatles: I'll Be Back (A Hard Day's Night)
R.E.M.: Try Not to Breathe (Automatic for the People)
Various; I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) (The Four Tops) (Forrest Gump OST)
Yoko Kanno: I Can't Be Cool (Ghost in the Shell OST)
The Church: Even the Flies Have Eyes (Music Inspired by Jeff Vandermeer's "Shriek: An Afterword")
Talking Heads: The Big Country (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
David Bowie: Modern Love (ChangesBowie)
Van Morrison: Days Like This (Still On Top)
King Crimson: Elephant Talk (Discipline)
Peter Gabriel: Come Talk to Me (Us)
Van Morrison: Coney Island (Still On Top)
Roger Eno & Kate St. John: In A Lonely World (The Familiar)
Mark Knopfler: Speedway At Nazareth (Sailing to Philadlephia)
David Bowie: Who DCan I Be Now? (previously unreleased) (Young Americans)
Various: White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) (Platoon OST)
MC Loki: Who be the Man? (Visitations)
XTC: 1,000 Umbrellas (Skylarking)
The Church: My Love, Last Night (Music Inspired by Jeff Vandermeer's "Shriek: An Afterword")
Various: Respect (Aretha Franklin) (Platoon OST)
Hans Zimmer: Tribal War (Blackhawk Down)
Various: She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Joe Cocker, The Beatles) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Various: (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman (Aretha Franklin) (The Big Chill OST)
Various: Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane) (Forrest Gump OST)
U2: Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car (Zooropa)
U2: Angel of Harlem (Rattle and Hum)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Something Big (Playback)
dj BC: Sweet and Clear (Jay-Z vs. Brian Eno) (Another Jay on Earth
John Anealio: Sarene (Sci-Fi Songs)
U2: Please (Pop)
The ROlling Stones: Honkey Tonk Women (Hot Rocks)
Kate Bush: This Woman's Work (The Sensual World)
Van Morrison: Dweller on the Threshold (Still on Top)
The Traveling Wilburys: Cool Dry Place (Traveling Wilburys Volume 3)
Joan Armatrading: All the Way from America (Love and Affection)
R.E.M.: Disturbance at the Heron House (Document)
George Hrab: We're Looking for Something More ethnic (Interrobang)
John Anealio: Jax (Leodora remix) (ft. John Anealio & Audiotechnica) (Sci-Fi Songs)
Various: I Like to Move It (Sacha Baron Cohen) (Madagascar)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Mary Jane's Last Dance (Playback)
David Bowie: Fame (Young Americans)
R.E.M.: Bang and Blame (Monster)
10,000 Maniacs: Noah's Dove (Our Time in Eden)
XTC: It's Nearly Africa (English Settlement)
Various: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (B.J. Thomas) (Forrest Gump OST)
The Beatles: Nowhere Man (Rubber Soul)
U2: Love Is Blindness (Achtung Baby)
The Pretenders: Private Life (Pretenders)
Dire Straits: Down to the Waterline (Dire Straits)
The Rolling Stones: Heart of Stone (Hot Rocks)
Van Morrison: Back On Top (Still On Top)
U2: The Playboy Mansion (Pop)
Various: Here's the News... (Robin Williams) (Good Morning, Vietnam OST)
Various: Spybreak (Short One) (Properllerheads) (The Matrix OST)
David Bowie: Glass Spider (Never Let Me Down)
Talking Heads: Don't Worry About the Government (Sand in the Vaseline)
Various: Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Remix) (Rob ZOmbie) (The Matrix OST)
David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll With Me (Diamond Dogs)
Dire Straits: Southbound Again (Dire Straits)
The Beatles: Love You To (Revolver)
The Church: DUncan and Mary (Music Inspired by Jeff Vandermeer's "Shriek: An Afterword")
Various: Naked Mole Rap (Kim Possible)
Joan Armatrading: I'm Lucky (Love and Affection)
Various: What The World Needs Now Is Love (Jackie De Shannon) (Forrest Gump OST)
Mark Knopfler: Sailing to Philadelphia (Sailing to Philadelphia)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: A Thing About You (Playback)
Various: Good Lovin' (The Rascals) (The Big Chill OST)
Various: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Tangerine Dream: Valley of the Kings (Lily on the Beach)
Various: Smiling Faces (The Undisputed Truth) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Various: Thanks Bro (Filter) (Songs in the Key of X)
R.E.M.: Sweetness Follows (Automatic for the People)
George Hrab: Disappointed (Interrobang)
Talking Heads: (Nothing But) Flowers (Naked)
The Pretenders: The English Dogs (Pretenders II)
Joan Armatrading: Down to Zero (Love and Affection)
Talking Heads: Air (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Just Shuffling Along: Day 01
First full day of the carnival is behind me, what was played?
Various: You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Yoko Kanno: Inner Universe (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Various: The Marines Hymn (Traditional) (Full Metal Jacket OST)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: American Girl (Playback)
The Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the Sky (Eye in the Sky)
R.E.M.: It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Document)
Art of Noise: Il Pleure (At the Turn of the Century) (The Seduction of Claude Debussy)
Joan Armatrading: When I Get It Right (Love and Affection)
Elton John: Grey Seal (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
Various: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? (Lovin' Spoonful) (From the Earth to the Moon OST)
George Hrab: Sciurus Carolinesis (Interrobang)
XTC: Leisure (English Settlement)
Various: Let's Get Together (The Youngbloods) (Forrest Gump OST)
Cruxshadows: Winterborn (Acoustic)
Yoko Kanno: FAX Me (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Brian Eno: Zawin/Lava (Another Green World)
Talking Heads: Mind (The Name of this Band is Talking Heads)
Yoko Kanno: Hi! (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Various: I Can See for Miles (The Who) (Apollo 13 OST)
Tom Slatter: Ingenious Devices (Spinning the Compass)
R.E.M.: Be Mine (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Various: Hush (Deep Purple) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The Pretenders: Brass in Pocket (The Pretenders)
Tom Slatter: I Still Smile (Spinning the Compass)
Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Greatest Hits)
Joan Armatrading: Turn Out the Light (Love and Affection)
Thomas Dolby: Airwaves (The Golden Age of Wireless)
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: Birthright (Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe)
R.E.M.: Shaking Through (Murmur)
Yes: Leave It (The Ultimate Yes)
Talking Heads: The Girls Want to be with the Girls (More Songs About Buildings and Food)
XTC: English Roundabout (English Settlement)
The Alan Parsons Project: The Turn of a Friendly Card--Nothing Left to Lose (The Turn of a Friendly Card)
David Bowie: Young Americans (Young Americans)
Various: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves (Cher) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Various: I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Gladys Knight & The Pips) (The Sounds Of Murphy Brown OST)
Various: California Sun (The Rivieras)(Good Morning Vietnam OST)
Paul McCartney & Wings: No Words (Band On The Run 25th Anniversary Edition)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Too Much Ain't Enough (Playback)
R.E.M.: Auctioneer (Another Engine) (Fables of the Reconstruction)
Brian Eno: Sombre Reptiles (Another Green World)
The B-52's: Good Stuff (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation))
U2: Bad (The Unforgettable Fire)
Blue Oyster Cult: Take Me Away (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
Yoko Kanno: Fish—Silent Cruise (Ghost in the Shell OST)
David Bowie: Somebody Up There Likes Me (Young Americans)
David Bowie: Sweet Thing (reprise) (Diamond Dogs)
Talking Heads: Pull Up the Roots (Speaking in Tongues)
Talking Heads: Life During Wartime (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Elton John: Goodby Yellow Brick Road (Goodby Yellow Brick Road)
Various: Surfin' Bird (The Trashmen) (Full Metal Jacket OST)
Talking Heads: City of Dreams (Sand in the Vaseline)
Tom Slatter: Home (Spinning the Compass)
Van Morrison: Real Real Gone (Still On Top)
Eric Clapton How Long Blues (From The Cradle)
R.E.M.: Walter's Theme (Dead Letter Office)
John Anealio: NaNoWriMo (Sci-Fi Songs)
U2: Gone (Pop)
Yes: Heart of the Sunrise (Fragile)
U2: Staring At The Sun (Pop)
Talking Heads: Sugar On My Tongue (Sand in the Vaseline)
Queen: Under Pressure (Greatest Hits)
The Police: Does Everyone Stare (Reggatta De Blanc)
Talking Heads: This Must be the Place (Naive Melody) (Sand in the Vaseline)
David Sylvian: Waterfront (Secrets of the Beehive)
The B-52's: Planet Claire (Time Capsule)
Mark Knopfler: Golden Heart (Golden Heart)
Yes: We Have Heaven (Fragile)
Blue Oyster Cult: Godzilla (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
XTC: The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul (Skylarking)
U2: Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Achtung Baby)
The Beatles: Yellow Submarine (Revolver)
Various: ookie, Sookie (Steppenwolf) (From the Earth to the Moon OST)
Sara Mc Lachlan: Circle (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
Various: Mannish Boy (Muddy Waters) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Various: Hello, I Love You (The Doors) (Platoon OST)
U2: Acrobat: (Achtung Baby)
R.E.M.: Life and How to Live It (Fables of the Reconstruction)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: King's Highway (Live) (Playback)
Utopia: Shinola (Swing to the Right)
John Anealio: Batman Smells (A Rebuttal) (Sci-Fi Songs)
Brian Eno: Little Fishes (Another Green World)
Murder by Death: Read Dawn (Music Inspired by Jeff VanderMeer's "Finch")
Clannad: Harry's Game (Anam)
The Rolling Stones: Midnight Rambler (Live) (Hot Rocks)
Art of Noise: Kiss (Aon Mix) (Featuring Tom Jones) (The Best of Art of Noise)
The Pretenders: Waste Not Want Not (Pretenders II)
The Traveling Wilburys: 7 Deadly Sins (The Traveling Wilburys Volume 3)
Bruce Springsteen: Working on the Highway (Born in the U.S.A.)
Talking Heads: Electricity (Drugs) (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
The Clash: Overpowered by Funk (Combat Rock)
The B-52's: Love Shack (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
10,000 Maniacs: Eden (Our Time in Eden)
R.E.M.: Get Up (Green)
R.E.M.: Just a Touch (Life's Rich Pageant)
Various: Death of a Clown (Dave Davies) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Hawkwind: The Iron Dream (Quark, Strangeness & Charm)
Various: Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (The Byrds) (Forrest Gump OST)
Various: Are You Ready (Pacific Gas & Electric) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Blue Oyster Cult: Veteran of the Psychic Wars (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
Various: Death (Ralph Stanley) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Various: Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson) (Platoon OST)
Channel Light Vessel: Duende (Automatic)
R.E.M.: Exhuming McCarthy (Document)
R.E.M.: I Don't Sleep, I Dream (Monster)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Somethin' Else (Live) (Playback)
The Alan Parsons Project: Time (The Turn of a Friendly Card)
U2: Promenade (The Unforgettable Fire)
Art of Noise: Metaforce (The Seduction of Claude Debussy)
Tangerine Dream: Radio City (Lily on the Beach)
George Hrab: How Do You Do? (Coelacanth)
First full day of the carnival is behind me, what was played?
Various: You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Yoko Kanno: Inner Universe (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Various: The Marines Hymn (Traditional) (Full Metal Jacket OST)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: American Girl (Playback)
The Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the Sky (Eye in the Sky)
R.E.M.: It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Document)
Art of Noise: Il Pleure (At the Turn of the Century) (The Seduction of Claude Debussy)
Joan Armatrading: When I Get It Right (Love and Affection)
Elton John: Grey Seal (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
Various: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? (Lovin' Spoonful) (From the Earth to the Moon OST)
George Hrab: Sciurus Carolinesis (Interrobang)
XTC: Leisure (English Settlement)
Various: Let's Get Together (The Youngbloods) (Forrest Gump OST)
Cruxshadows: Winterborn (Acoustic)
Yoko Kanno: FAX Me (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Brian Eno: Zawin/Lava (Another Green World)
Talking Heads: Mind (The Name of this Band is Talking Heads)
Yoko Kanno: Hi! (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Various: I Can See for Miles (The Who) (Apollo 13 OST)
Tom Slatter: Ingenious Devices (Spinning the Compass)
R.E.M.: Be Mine (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Various: Hush (Deep Purple) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The Pretenders: Brass in Pocket (The Pretenders)
Tom Slatter: I Still Smile (Spinning the Compass)
Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Greatest Hits)
Joan Armatrading: Turn Out the Light (Love and Affection)
Thomas Dolby: Airwaves (The Golden Age of Wireless)
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: Birthright (Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe)
R.E.M.: Shaking Through (Murmur)
Yes: Leave It (The Ultimate Yes)
Talking Heads: The Girls Want to be with the Girls (More Songs About Buildings and Food)
XTC: English Roundabout (English Settlement)
The Alan Parsons Project: The Turn of a Friendly Card--Nothing Left to Lose (The Turn of a Friendly Card)
David Bowie: Young Americans (Young Americans)
Various: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves (Cher) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Various: I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Gladys Knight & The Pips) (The Sounds Of Murphy Brown OST)
Various: California Sun (The Rivieras)(Good Morning Vietnam OST)
Paul McCartney & Wings: No Words (Band On The Run 25th Anniversary Edition)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Too Much Ain't Enough (Playback)
R.E.M.: Auctioneer (Another Engine) (Fables of the Reconstruction)
Brian Eno: Sombre Reptiles (Another Green World)
The B-52's: Good Stuff (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation))
U2: Bad (The Unforgettable Fire)
Blue Oyster Cult: Take Me Away (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
Yoko Kanno: Fish—Silent Cruise (Ghost in the Shell OST)
David Bowie: Somebody Up There Likes Me (Young Americans)
David Bowie: Sweet Thing (reprise) (Diamond Dogs)
Talking Heads: Pull Up the Roots (Speaking in Tongues)
Talking Heads: Life During Wartime (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
Elton John: Goodby Yellow Brick Road (Goodby Yellow Brick Road)
Various: Surfin' Bird (The Trashmen) (Full Metal Jacket OST)
Talking Heads: City of Dreams (Sand in the Vaseline)
Tom Slatter: Home (Spinning the Compass)
Van Morrison: Real Real Gone (Still On Top)
Eric Clapton How Long Blues (From The Cradle)
R.E.M.: Walter's Theme (Dead Letter Office)
John Anealio: NaNoWriMo (Sci-Fi Songs)
U2: Gone (Pop)
Yes: Heart of the Sunrise (Fragile)
U2: Staring At The Sun (Pop)
Talking Heads: Sugar On My Tongue (Sand in the Vaseline)
Queen: Under Pressure (Greatest Hits)
The Police: Does Everyone Stare (Reggatta De Blanc)
Talking Heads: This Must be the Place (Naive Melody) (Sand in the Vaseline)
David Sylvian: Waterfront (Secrets of the Beehive)
The B-52's: Planet Claire (Time Capsule)
Mark Knopfler: Golden Heart (Golden Heart)
Yes: We Have Heaven (Fragile)
Blue Oyster Cult: Godzilla (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
XTC: The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul (Skylarking)
U2: Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Achtung Baby)
The Beatles: Yellow Submarine (Revolver)
Various: ookie, Sookie (Steppenwolf) (From the Earth to the Moon OST)
Sara Mc Lachlan: Circle (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
Various: Mannish Boy (Muddy Waters) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Various: Hello, I Love You (The Doors) (Platoon OST)
U2: Acrobat: (Achtung Baby)
R.E.M.: Life and How to Live It (Fables of the Reconstruction)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: King's Highway (Live) (Playback)
Utopia: Shinola (Swing to the Right)
John Anealio: Batman Smells (A Rebuttal) (Sci-Fi Songs)
Brian Eno: Little Fishes (Another Green World)
Murder by Death: Read Dawn (Music Inspired by Jeff VanderMeer's "Finch")
Clannad: Harry's Game (Anam)
The Rolling Stones: Midnight Rambler (Live) (Hot Rocks)
Art of Noise: Kiss (Aon Mix) (Featuring Tom Jones) (The Best of Art of Noise)
The Pretenders: Waste Not Want Not (Pretenders II)
The Traveling Wilburys: 7 Deadly Sins (The Traveling Wilburys Volume 3)
Bruce Springsteen: Working on the Highway (Born in the U.S.A.)
Talking Heads: Electricity (Drugs) (The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads)
The Clash: Overpowered by Funk (Combat Rock)
The B-52's: Love Shack (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
10,000 Maniacs: Eden (Our Time in Eden)
R.E.M.: Get Up (Green)
R.E.M.: Just a Touch (Life's Rich Pageant)
Various: Death of a Clown (Dave Davies) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Hawkwind: The Iron Dream (Quark, Strangeness & Charm)
Various: Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (The Byrds) (Forrest Gump OST)
Various: Are You Ready (Pacific Gas & Electric) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Blue Oyster Cult: Veteran of the Psychic Wars (The Essential Blue Oyster Cult)
Various: Death (Ralph Stanley) (O Brother, Where Art Thou OST)
Various: Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson) (Platoon OST)
Channel Light Vessel: Duende (Automatic)
R.E.M.: Exhuming McCarthy (Document)
R.E.M.: I Don't Sleep, I Dream (Monster)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Somethin' Else (Live) (Playback)
The Alan Parsons Project: Time (The Turn of a Friendly Card)
U2: Promenade (The Unforgettable Fire)
Art of Noise: Metaforce (The Seduction of Claude Debussy)
Tangerine Dream: Radio City (Lily on the Beach)
George Hrab: How Do You Do? (Coelacanth)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Just Shuffling Along: Day 00
So, the carnival hasn't opened yet but many have been very busy. Among those in that state are a small, highly elite group of food workers who make a trip to the holy of holies, Restaurant Depot, where we drop several thousands on food. Fun times. Then we offload, organize, chop onions and the like. While doing so, I listened to...
Various: Angel Band (The Stanley Brothers) (O Brother, Where Art Thou)
Roger Eno & Kate St. John: Heartland (The Familiar)
Talking Heads: I Want to Live (Sand in the Vaseline)
Jackson Browne: The Road (Running on Empty)
Yes: Roundabout (Fragile)
Various: Get It On (T. Rex) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Various: Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (Forrest Gump Soundtrack)
The Police: Deathwish (Reggatta de Blanc)
Steely Dan: Bad Sneakers (Katy Lied)
Van Morrison: Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) (Still on Top)
Johnny Rivers: Secret Agent Man
The Alan Parsons Project: The Turn of a Friendly Card—Snake Eyes (The Turn of a Friendly Card)
XTC: Across This Antheap (Oranges & Lemons)
Kate Bush: Why Should I Love You? (The Red Shoes)
Robin Williams & Various: Good Morning, Vietnam! (Good Morning, Vietnam)
John Anealio: Grasping for the Wind (Sci-Fi Songs)
Jackson Browne: Love Needs a Heart (Running on Empty)
Mark Knopfler: So Far from the Clyde (Get Lucky)
Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers: Here Comes My Girl (Playback)
Mark Knopfler: Are We In Trouble Now (Golden Heart)
Art of Noise: Peter Gun Theme (The Twang Mix) (Featuring Dwayne Eddy) (The Best of the Art of Noise)
R.E.M.: Sitting Still (Murmur)
X.T.C.: Snowman (English Settlement)
Mark Knopfler: Do America (Sailing to Philadelphia)
Yes: Cans and Brahams (Fragile)
Joan Armatrading: Travel So Far (Love and Affection)
10,000 Maniacs: Jezebel (MTV Unplugged)
Van Morrison: Have I Told You Lately (Still On Top)
The Police: The Bed's Too Big Without You (Reggatta de Blanc)
Various: Cold Sweat (James Brown) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
ELO: Jungle (Out of the Blue)
The Pretenders: Mystery Achievement (Pretenders)
The B-52's: Hallucinating Pluto (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
XTC: War Dance (Nonsuch)
Yes: Lift Me Up (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection)
Yes: Yours is No Disgrace (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection)
Various: Shaft Theme (Isaac Hayes) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
John Anealio: Beautiful Vampire (Sci-Fi Songs)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: I Won't Back Down (Playback)
Various: Sky Pilot (Eric Burdon and The Animals) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Brian Eno: King's Lead Hat (Before and After Science)
The Rolling Stones: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction) (Hot Rocks)
Various: Down by the Lazy River (The Osmonds) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Peter Gabriel: The Drop (Up)
Tangerine Dream: Paradise Cove (Lily on the Beach)
Kate Bush: Love and Anger (The Sensual World)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: The Apartment Song (Demo) (Playback)
King Crimson: Frame By Frame (Discipline)
The Beatles: Here, There & Everywhere (Revolver)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Keeping Me Alive (Playback)
The Clash: Rudie Can't Fail (London Calling)
Yes: Long Distance Runaround (Fragile)
Brian Eno: The Big Ship (Another Green World)
Sting: Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me) (Ten Summoner's Tales)
Nick Glennie Smith & Various: The Glory of Live (Rascal Flatts) (We Were Soldiers Once...And Young)
ELO: Steppin' Out (Out of the Blue)
Talking Heads: Take Me to the River (Sand in the Vaseline)
Talking Heads: Heaven (The Name of This Band is Talking Heads)
The Cars: I'm In Touch With Your World (The Cars)
Various: American Woman (The Guess Who) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Dale Chase: Whose Your Doctor? (Visitations)
Art of Noise: Close (To the Edit) (The Best of Art of Noise)
Various: (I Don't Know Why) But I Do (Clarence "Frogman" Henry) (Forrest Gump Soundtrack)
Utopia: Fahrenheit 451 (Swing to the Right)
Queen: Innuendo (Greatest Hits)
Hans Zimmer: Of the Earth (Blackhawk Down)
Joan Armatrading: Dry Land (Love and Affection)
David Bowie: New York's in Love (Never Let Me Down)
The Alan Parsons Project: Wine from the Water (Try Anything Once)
John Anealio: Cyon #6 (Sci-Fi Songs)
Mark Knopfler: The Rocks and the Water (Local Hero)
Thomas Dolby: Weightless (The Golden Age of Wireless)
Yoko Kanno: 3tops (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Jethro Tull: Glory Row (War Child)
Adam War Rock: I Will Do Science (kHill Remix) (Instrumental) (Dresden Codak)
Mark Knopfler: Imelda (Golden Heart)
Van Morrison: Moondance (Still on Top)
U2: Mofo (Pop)
George Harrison: Wreck of the Hesperus (Cloud Nine)
Yes: Don't Kill the Whale (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Eric Clapton: Five Long Years (From the Cradle)
Adrian Belew: The Man in the Moon (Desire of the Rhino King)
Van Morrison: Wonderful Remark (Still on Top)
Paul McCartney & Wings: Mrs. Vanderbilt (Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Edition)
Channel Light Vessel: Bubbling Blue (Automatic)
Tangerine Dream: Atlas Eyes (Optical Race)
R.E.M.: Wolves, Lower (Dead Letter Office)
Various: Too Many Fish in the Sea (The Marvelettes) (Big Chill Soundtrack)
Yes: South Side of the Sky (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Van Morrison: Hymns to the Silence (Still on Top)
Queen: Don't Stop Me Now (Greatest Hits)
Kate Bush: Reaching Out (The Sensual World)
djBC: Worlds of Success (Jay-Z vs. Eno) (Another Jay on Earth)
R.E.M.: Maps and Legends (Fables of the Reconstruction)
R.E.M.: Lightin' Hopkins (Document)
Kate Bush: ...And So Is Love (The Red Shoes)
Talking Heads: Drugs (Electricity) (The Name of This Band is Talking Heads)
Kate Bush: Walk Straight Down the Middle (The Sensual World)
John Anealio: Sarene (Synonyms Mix) (Sci-Fi Songs)
Dire Straits: In the Gallery (Dire Straits)
Joan Armatrading: How Cruel (Love and Affection)
Various: Yellow River (Christie) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The Clash: Brand New Cadillac (London Calling)
10,000 Maniacs: Like the Weather (MTV Unplugged)
Joan Armatrading: Save Me (Love and Affection)
Van Morrison: Stranded (Still on Top)
So, the carnival hasn't opened yet but many have been very busy. Among those in that state are a small, highly elite group of food workers who make a trip to the holy of holies, Restaurant Depot, where we drop several thousands on food. Fun times. Then we offload, organize, chop onions and the like. While doing so, I listened to...
Various: Angel Band (The Stanley Brothers) (O Brother, Where Art Thou)
Roger Eno & Kate St. John: Heartland (The Familiar)
Talking Heads: I Want to Live (Sand in the Vaseline)
Jackson Browne: The Road (Running on Empty)
Yes: Roundabout (Fragile)
Various: Get It On (T. Rex) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Various: Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (Forrest Gump Soundtrack)
The Police: Deathwish (Reggatta de Blanc)
Steely Dan: Bad Sneakers (Katy Lied)
Van Morrison: Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) (Still on Top)
Johnny Rivers: Secret Agent Man
The Alan Parsons Project: The Turn of a Friendly Card—Snake Eyes (The Turn of a Friendly Card)
XTC: Across This Antheap (Oranges & Lemons)
Kate Bush: Why Should I Love You? (The Red Shoes)
Robin Williams & Various: Good Morning, Vietnam! (Good Morning, Vietnam)
John Anealio: Grasping for the Wind (Sci-Fi Songs)
Jackson Browne: Love Needs a Heart (Running on Empty)
Mark Knopfler: So Far from the Clyde (Get Lucky)
Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers: Here Comes My Girl (Playback)
Mark Knopfler: Are We In Trouble Now (Golden Heart)
Art of Noise: Peter Gun Theme (The Twang Mix) (Featuring Dwayne Eddy) (The Best of the Art of Noise)
R.E.M.: Sitting Still (Murmur)
X.T.C.: Snowman (English Settlement)
Mark Knopfler: Do America (Sailing to Philadelphia)
Yes: Cans and Brahams (Fragile)
Joan Armatrading: Travel So Far (Love and Affection)
10,000 Maniacs: Jezebel (MTV Unplugged)
Van Morrison: Have I Told You Lately (Still On Top)
The Police: The Bed's Too Big Without You (Reggatta de Blanc)
Various: Cold Sweat (James Brown) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
ELO: Jungle (Out of the Blue)
The Pretenders: Mystery Achievement (Pretenders)
The B-52's: Hallucinating Pluto (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
XTC: War Dance (Nonsuch)
Yes: Lift Me Up (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection)
Yes: Yours is No Disgrace (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection)
Various: Shaft Theme (Isaac Hayes) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
John Anealio: Beautiful Vampire (Sci-Fi Songs)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: I Won't Back Down (Playback)
Various: Sky Pilot (Eric Burdon and The Animals) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Brian Eno: King's Lead Hat (Before and After Science)
The Rolling Stones: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction) (Hot Rocks)
Various: Down by the Lazy River (The Osmonds) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Peter Gabriel: The Drop (Up)
Tangerine Dream: Paradise Cove (Lily on the Beach)
Kate Bush: Love and Anger (The Sensual World)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: The Apartment Song (Demo) (Playback)
King Crimson: Frame By Frame (Discipline)
The Beatles: Here, There & Everywhere (Revolver)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Keeping Me Alive (Playback)
The Clash: Rudie Can't Fail (London Calling)
Yes: Long Distance Runaround (Fragile)
Brian Eno: The Big Ship (Another Green World)
Sting: Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me) (Ten Summoner's Tales)
Nick Glennie Smith & Various: The Glory of Live (Rascal Flatts) (We Were Soldiers Once...And Young)
ELO: Steppin' Out (Out of the Blue)
Talking Heads: Take Me to the River (Sand in the Vaseline)
Talking Heads: Heaven (The Name of This Band is Talking Heads)
The Cars: I'm In Touch With Your World (The Cars)
Various: American Woman (The Guess Who) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Dale Chase: Whose Your Doctor? (Visitations)
Art of Noise: Close (To the Edit) (The Best of Art of Noise)
Various: (I Don't Know Why) But I Do (Clarence "Frogman" Henry) (Forrest Gump Soundtrack)
Utopia: Fahrenheit 451 (Swing to the Right)
Queen: Innuendo (Greatest Hits)
Hans Zimmer: Of the Earth (Blackhawk Down)
Joan Armatrading: Dry Land (Love and Affection)
David Bowie: New York's in Love (Never Let Me Down)
The Alan Parsons Project: Wine from the Water (Try Anything Once)
John Anealio: Cyon #6 (Sci-Fi Songs)
Mark Knopfler: The Rocks and the Water (Local Hero)
Thomas Dolby: Weightless (The Golden Age of Wireless)
Yoko Kanno: 3tops (Ghost in the Shell OST)
Jethro Tull: Glory Row (War Child)
Adam War Rock: I Will Do Science (kHill Remix) (Instrumental) (Dresden Codak)
Mark Knopfler: Imelda (Golden Heart)
Van Morrison: Moondance (Still on Top)
U2: Mofo (Pop)
George Harrison: Wreck of the Hesperus (Cloud Nine)
Yes: Don't Kill the Whale (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Eric Clapton: Five Long Years (From the Cradle)
Adrian Belew: The Man in the Moon (Desire of the Rhino King)
Van Morrison: Wonderful Remark (Still on Top)
Paul McCartney & Wings: Mrs. Vanderbilt (Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Edition)
Channel Light Vessel: Bubbling Blue (Automatic)
Tangerine Dream: Atlas Eyes (Optical Race)
R.E.M.: Wolves, Lower (Dead Letter Office)
Various: Too Many Fish in the Sea (The Marvelettes) (Big Chill Soundtrack)
Yes: South Side of the Sky (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Album)
Van Morrison: Hymns to the Silence (Still on Top)
Queen: Don't Stop Me Now (Greatest Hits)
Kate Bush: Reaching Out (The Sensual World)
djBC: Worlds of Success (Jay-Z vs. Eno) (Another Jay on Earth)
R.E.M.: Maps and Legends (Fables of the Reconstruction)
R.E.M.: Lightin' Hopkins (Document)
Kate Bush: ...And So Is Love (The Red Shoes)
Talking Heads: Drugs (Electricity) (The Name of This Band is Talking Heads)
Kate Bush: Walk Straight Down the Middle (The Sensual World)
John Anealio: Sarene (Synonyms Mix) (Sci-Fi Songs)
Dire Straits: In the Gallery (Dire Straits)
Joan Armatrading: How Cruel (Love and Affection)
Various: Yellow River (Christie) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The Clash: Brand New Cadillac (London Calling)
10,000 Maniacs: Like the Weather (MTV Unplugged)
Joan Armatrading: Save Me (Love and Affection)
Van Morrison: Stranded (Still on Top)
Just Shuffling Along: Day Minus 01
It's that time of the year again! I spend a week (plus) volunteering in the kitchen (running it) at our biggest church-related fundraising event. Come on down! At least you'll know the food is cooked and the kitchen is clean.
Two days before the carnival saw errands, so I started my annual Carnival Shuffle early. Here's what showed up in the playlist:
David Bowie: Modern Love (ChangesBowie)
Robin Williams (and others): Crete/Gomer/Lyndon (Good Morning, Vietnam)
The Traveling Wilburys: Rattled (Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1)
The Rolling Stones: Time Is On My Side (Hot Rocks)
The Cars: My Best Friend's Girl (The Cars)
The Church: Incident on Bannerville (Music Inspired by Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek: An Afterword)
Steely Dan: Show Biz Kids (Countdown to Ecstasy
Various: Maggie May (Rod Stewart) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Joan Armatrading: Barefoot and Pregnant (Love and Affection)
Talking Heads: Take Me to the River (Live) (The Name of This Band is Talking Heads)
John Anealio: Leodora (Sci-Fi Songs)
Various: Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The B-52's: Strobelight (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
David Sylvian: When Poets Dreamed of Angels (Secrets of the Beehive)
Yes: The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus) (Fragile)
Warren Zevon: Desperadoes Under the Eaves (The Best of Warren Zevon)
R.E.M.: 1,000,000 (Dead Letter Office)
David Bowie: John, I'm Only Dancing (ChangesBowie)
Brian Eno: Backwater (Before and After Science)
Yoko Kanno: Pet Food (Ghost in the Shell OST)
U2: Last Night on Earth (Pop)
David Bowie: Stay (Live) (Station to Station)
Donald Fagen: The Nightfly (The Nightfly)
Various: Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson) (Murphy Brown Original Soundtrack)
Talking Heads: Wild Wild Life (Sand in the Vaseline)
Joan Armatrading: Ma-Me-O-Beach (Love and Affection)
R.E.M.: Electrolite (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Various: Blowing in the Wind (Stevie Wonder) Tour of Duty Compilation)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Make That Connection (Playback)
Various: Love Child (Diana Ross and the Supremes) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Christmas All Over Again (Playback)
The Traveling Wilburys: If You Belonged to Me (Traveling Wilburys, Volume 3)
Talking Heads: This Must be the Place (Naive Melody) (Speaking in Tongues)
ELO: Birmingham Blues (Out of the Blue)
The Clash: Four Horsemen (London Calling)
Bruce Springsteen: Brilliant Disguise (Tunnel of Love)
Various: What's Going On (Marvin Gaye) (The Big Chill Original Soundtrack)
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic (Pretzel Logic)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Cracking Up (Playback)
Various: On the Road Again (Willie Nelson) (Forrest Gump Original Soundtrack)
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Woodstock (So Far)
The Byrds: Chimes of Freedom (Greatest Hits)
It's that time of the year again! I spend a week (plus) volunteering in the kitchen (running it) at our biggest church-related fundraising event. Come on down! At least you'll know the food is cooked and the kitchen is clean.
Two days before the carnival saw errands, so I started my annual Carnival Shuffle early. Here's what showed up in the playlist:
David Bowie: Modern Love (ChangesBowie)
Robin Williams (and others): Crete/Gomer/Lyndon (Good Morning, Vietnam)
The Traveling Wilburys: Rattled (Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1)
The Rolling Stones: Time Is On My Side (Hot Rocks)
The Cars: My Best Friend's Girl (The Cars)
The Church: Incident on Bannerville (Music Inspired by Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek: An Afterword)
Steely Dan: Show Biz Kids (Countdown to Ecstasy
Various: Maggie May (Rod Stewart) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Joan Armatrading: Barefoot and Pregnant (Love and Affection)
Talking Heads: Take Me to the River (Live) (The Name of This Band is Talking Heads)
John Anealio: Leodora (Sci-Fi Songs)
Various: Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
The B-52's: Strobelight (Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation)
David Sylvian: When Poets Dreamed of Angels (Secrets of the Beehive)
Yes: The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus) (Fragile)
Warren Zevon: Desperadoes Under the Eaves (The Best of Warren Zevon)
R.E.M.: 1,000,000 (Dead Letter Office)
David Bowie: John, I'm Only Dancing (ChangesBowie)
Brian Eno: Backwater (Before and After Science)
Yoko Kanno: Pet Food (Ghost in the Shell OST)
U2: Last Night on Earth (Pop)
David Bowie: Stay (Live) (Station to Station)
Donald Fagen: The Nightfly (The Nightfly)
Various: Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson) (Murphy Brown Original Soundtrack)
Talking Heads: Wild Wild Life (Sand in the Vaseline)
Joan Armatrading: Ma-Me-O-Beach (Love and Affection)
R.E.M.: Electrolite (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Various: Blowing in the Wind (Stevie Wonder) Tour of Duty Compilation)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Make That Connection (Playback)
Various: Love Child (Diana Ross and the Supremes) (Tour of Duty Compilation)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Christmas All Over Again (Playback)
The Traveling Wilburys: If You Belonged to Me (Traveling Wilburys, Volume 3)
Talking Heads: This Must be the Place (Naive Melody) (Speaking in Tongues)
ELO: Birmingham Blues (Out of the Blue)
The Clash: Four Horsemen (London Calling)
Bruce Springsteen: Brilliant Disguise (Tunnel of Love)
Various: What's Going On (Marvin Gaye) (The Big Chill Original Soundtrack)
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic (Pretzel Logic)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Cracking Up (Playback)
Various: On the Road Again (Willie Nelson) (Forrest Gump Original Soundtrack)
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Woodstock (So Far)
The Byrds: Chimes of Freedom (Greatest Hits)
Monday, May 09, 2011
The Space Review
In the current issue of The Space Review, here are a few items of interest: Jeff Foust looks at why some in government are skeptical about private efforts. Louis Friedman looks at public-private efforts to explore. And, Jeff Foust looks at a new book on CETI.
In the current issue of The Space Review, here are a few items of interest: Jeff Foust looks at why some in government are skeptical about private efforts. Louis Friedman looks at public-private efforts to explore. And, Jeff Foust looks at a new book on CETI.
Friday, May 06, 2011
Oh, The Humanity
My (maternal) grandfather worked for The Daily News as a linotype operator. On the last flight, the Hindenburg flew over NYC before heading down to Lakehurst, everybody streamed out of the building to see it. Shortly after they had one of those "stop the presses" moments.
My (maternal) grandfather worked for The Daily News as a linotype operator. On the last flight, the Hindenburg flew over NYC before heading down to Lakehurst, everybody streamed out of the building to see it. Shortly after they had one of those "stop the presses" moments.
Monday, May 02, 2011
Kill Bill, Volume II
Osama (or however you want to spell his name) is dead. I am so 'effin happy. Can I now put this behind me?
Osama (or however you want to spell his name) is dead. I am so 'effin happy. Can I now put this behind me?
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Number 286. Gotta Collect Them All
April shows bring May's issue of Ansible!
April shows bring May's issue of Ansible!
Without Comment. A 'Sci-Fi and Fantasy Friendly Church Service' near Melbourne, encouraging fans to come in costume and hear moral lessons drawn from The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Wars, was frowned on by a rival pastor: '"I don't have a problem with people enjoying sci-fi, but church isn't the place to encourage escapism and fancy dress," Mentone Baptist minister Murray Campbell said.' (Herald Sun, Australia, 6 April) [PB]
Grand Master
Stuck in the back of The Ghost Light are two obituaries on Fritz Leiber, one from The New York Times and one from Locus. Did he really pass away in 1992? It seems both just yesterday and so long ago. Just yesterday because he is one of my favorites and many of his stories have had a great impact upon me. Long ago because his books have faded from the shelves other than a couple of recent collections and an occasional reprint of the tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
Ah, me. Time for a visit with one of my favorites. Maybe this will spark some interest out there!
Fritz Leiber; The Ghost Light (Berkley; 1984; ISBN 0-425-06812-9; cover byJohn Jude Palencar).
An excellent collection on several fronts. Great selection of stories (I only miss a few entries such as Catch That Zeppelin! and A Pail of Air, plus maybe Ill Met in Lankhmar instead of Bazaar of the Bizarre to make this a better set), plus superb artwork: folks, if you can find this book as an illustrated edition, and as a trade paperback instead of a mass market paperback (the better to appreciate the author photograph in the beginning, of Fritz Leiber in front of a bookstore filled with items from the collection), I urge you to do so. This book was an early production by Byron Preiss and is one of the best results of that now-lost publishing effort. The stories represent some of Leiber's best efforts and represent entries into each of his series (unless I'm forgetting, as it has been a number of years, only the Change War series is not represented) or attempted series (unless memory is incorrect, I seem to recall Leiber writing descriptions in previous collections where he said both A Pail of Air, also not represented here, and Coming Attraction would have been parts of serial works). Topping off the collection is a long autobiograpical essay, amusing and interesting, and making one wish that Leiber had done a book-length version of his life.
There seems to be two themes to the stories in the book. The themes apply to most, if not all of the stories. The first is that each story is inspired by some sort of ordinary-seeming object. A night light. A mask. A chess set. A store full of odds and ends. For the second, the characters are haunted by real or imagined ghosts.
The Ghost Light opens the collection with a short work about a family visiting the estranged father of the main character and attempting a reconciliation. The father is a recovering alcoholic who lost his wife several years ago. Mystery grows as it is revealed that he may have played a role...passive or aggressive...in her death. Toss in a couple of night lights, some paintings, and a storm and you get a tale that equals anything written by Tim Powers or Neil Gaiman. Magical realism, indeed.
Coming Attraction is equally creepy. New York City, after World War III with the stump of the Empire State Building dominating the landscape (it seemed to have made off better than the World Trade Center with a smaller attack). Women wear masks to give themselves an air of mystery (or to cover up burns and mutations), wrestling dominates the airwaves (hey, is this science fiction or the SyyyyyFyyyyy Channel?). Leiber was often writing about sex and our fascination with sex and this is one of his takes on the subject. And a scary tale as well.
A Deskful of Girls explores Leiber's fascination (fear?) of sex. A famous psychologist is removing ghosts from various female clients. The main character is sent to try to recover what he thinks is blackmail material, but finds something quite different.
I recall reading Space-Time for Springers in its first appearance, so this might be my earliest encounter with Leiber along with A Pail of Air. Gummitch is a superkitten, but only he seems to know it.
Four Ghosts in Hamlet ties Leiber's own experiences on the stage into a fascinating horror story. Or is it? Was there a "real" ghost during the performance of That Play? One of my favorites by him.
Made up of: Introduction; The Ghost Light (illustrated by John Jude Palencar); Coming Attraction (illustrated by Brian Humphrey); A Deskful of Girls (illustrated by JoEllen Trilling); Space-Time for Springers (illustrated by Pat Ortega); Four Ghosts in Hamlet (illustrated by Thomas Canry); Gonna Roll the Bones (illustrated by David Wiesner); Bazaar of the Bizarre (illustrated by Robert Gould); Midnight by the Morphy Watch (illustrated by Steve Leialoha); Black Glass (illustrated by Paul Rivoche); Not So Much Disorder and Not So Early Sex: An Autiobiographic Essay.
Counts as six (6) entries in the 2011 Year in Shorts.
Addendum: Fritz Leiber's works at Project Gutenberg. Fritz Leiber's works at LibriVox (Big Time is forthcoming). A recent Fritz Leiber collection from Subterranean Press. A recent Fritz Leiber collection from Night Shade Books. Books by Fritz Leiber at Amazon.
Stuck in the back of The Ghost Light are two obituaries on Fritz Leiber, one from The New York Times and one from Locus. Did he really pass away in 1992? It seems both just yesterday and so long ago. Just yesterday because he is one of my favorites and many of his stories have had a great impact upon me. Long ago because his books have faded from the shelves other than a couple of recent collections and an occasional reprint of the tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
Ah, me. Time for a visit with one of my favorites. Maybe this will spark some interest out there!
Fritz Leiber; The Ghost Light (Berkley; 1984; ISBN 0-425-06812-9; cover byJohn Jude Palencar).
An excellent collection on several fronts. Great selection of stories (I only miss a few entries such as Catch That Zeppelin! and A Pail of Air, plus maybe Ill Met in Lankhmar instead of Bazaar of the Bizarre to make this a better set), plus superb artwork: folks, if you can find this book as an illustrated edition, and as a trade paperback instead of a mass market paperback (the better to appreciate the author photograph in the beginning, of Fritz Leiber in front of a bookstore filled with items from the collection), I urge you to do so. This book was an early production by Byron Preiss and is one of the best results of that now-lost publishing effort. The stories represent some of Leiber's best efforts and represent entries into each of his series (unless I'm forgetting, as it has been a number of years, only the Change War series is not represented) or attempted series (unless memory is incorrect, I seem to recall Leiber writing descriptions in previous collections where he said both A Pail of Air, also not represented here, and Coming Attraction would have been parts of serial works). Topping off the collection is a long autobiograpical essay, amusing and interesting, and making one wish that Leiber had done a book-length version of his life.
There seems to be two themes to the stories in the book. The themes apply to most, if not all of the stories. The first is that each story is inspired by some sort of ordinary-seeming object. A night light. A mask. A chess set. A store full of odds and ends. For the second, the characters are haunted by real or imagined ghosts.
The Ghost Light opens the collection with a short work about a family visiting the estranged father of the main character and attempting a reconciliation. The father is a recovering alcoholic who lost his wife several years ago. Mystery grows as it is revealed that he may have played a role...passive or aggressive...in her death. Toss in a couple of night lights, some paintings, and a storm and you get a tale that equals anything written by Tim Powers or Neil Gaiman. Magical realism, indeed.
Coming Attraction is equally creepy. New York City, after World War III with the stump of the Empire State Building dominating the landscape (it seemed to have made off better than the World Trade Center with a smaller attack). Women wear masks to give themselves an air of mystery (or to cover up burns and mutations), wrestling dominates the airwaves (hey, is this science fiction or the SyyyyyFyyyyy Channel?). Leiber was often writing about sex and our fascination with sex and this is one of his takes on the subject. And a scary tale as well.
A Deskful of Girls explores Leiber's fascination (fear?) of sex. A famous psychologist is removing ghosts from various female clients. The main character is sent to try to recover what he thinks is blackmail material, but finds something quite different.
I recall reading Space-Time for Springers in its first appearance, so this might be my earliest encounter with Leiber along with A Pail of Air. Gummitch is a superkitten, but only he seems to know it.
Four Ghosts in Hamlet ties Leiber's own experiences on the stage into a fascinating horror story. Or is it? Was there a "real" ghost during the performance of That Play? One of my favorites by him.
Made up of: Introduction; The Ghost Light (illustrated by John Jude Palencar); Coming Attraction (illustrated by Brian Humphrey); A Deskful of Girls (illustrated by JoEllen Trilling); Space-Time for Springers (illustrated by Pat Ortega); Four Ghosts in Hamlet (illustrated by Thomas Canry); Gonna Roll the Bones (illustrated by David Wiesner); Bazaar of the Bizarre (illustrated by Robert Gould); Midnight by the Morphy Watch (illustrated by Steve Leialoha); Black Glass (illustrated by Paul Rivoche); Not So Much Disorder and Not So Early Sex: An Autiobiographic Essay.
Counts as six (6) entries in the 2011 Year in Shorts.
Addendum: Fritz Leiber's works at Project Gutenberg. Fritz Leiber's works at LibriVox (Big Time is forthcoming). A recent Fritz Leiber collection from Subterranean Press. A recent Fritz Leiber collection from Night Shade Books. Books by Fritz Leiber at Amazon.
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